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The President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, and the President of the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), PhD, Dsc Grzegorz Brona, signed a Letter of Intent to enhance cooperation between the two agencies, during a Romanian-Polish Bilateral Meeting in Bucharest, on 14-15 November.

During the first two weeks of November 2018, significant forest fires occurred in the Apuseni region of Romania and in California, USA. The data stream from the Sentinel 2 and 3 satellites of the European Copernicus programme allowed the monitoring of the fire dynamics due to their superior temporal resolution. These images were processed by Terrasigna, a Romanian company with strong background in Earth Observation data processing.

The first Romanian cosmonaut and Honorary President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dumitru Dorin Prunariu was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Craiova. The event took place on 1 November 2018, in the „Mihai I al României” auditorium.

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT (04:45:28 local time in Romania), on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar System’s innermost planet.

World Space Week, the largest public event in the world dedicated to the celebration of space, takes place between 4 and 10 October.