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Potential plans and roadmaps were proposed to build national capacity in Earth observation using small satellite systems during a seminar held by the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) in Hanoi on June 30.

PSNews - According to the Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, NanoDragon, a Vietnamese-made satellite will be launched into outer space on October 1 (Hanoi time).

The Vietnam-made satellite “Nano Dragon” was flown to Japan on August 11, 2021, according to the Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

The Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) has received several objects from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for exhibition at the country’s space museum.

PSNews - Under the Master plan for Space technology named “The Strategy for Research and Application of Space Technology Towards 2020” which declared that Vietnam would own satellites made in Vietnam by 2020, the GOV officially decided to implement the Project on “Disaster and Climate Change Countermeasures Using Earth Observation Satellite” as a core project to realize the strategy. 

According to the Vietnam Space Center (VNSC), the Micro Dragon satellite is scheduled to be launched by the end of 2018.

PSNews – With this agreement, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will provide its ScanSAR ALOS-2 images capturing the Vietnamese territory and research projects. 

PSNews – The Nha Trang Observatory is scheduled to open for visitors in October 2017, according to Khanh Hoa province.