China and Brazil Build Space Laboratory

A 2024 file image of CETC's headquarters in Beijing. Photo by CFOTO / NURPHOTO / NURPHOTO VIA AFP

Brazil has reportedly started building a joint lab with a Chinese company to advance space technology. A spokesperson for the Chinese defense tech company China Electronics Technology Group Corp (CETC) confirmed that work has started on the China–Brazil Joint Laboratory for Radio Astronomy Technology, following an earlier agreement with Brazil’s Federal University of Campina Grande and the Federal University of Paraíba.

The lab will bolster a massive radio telescope project aimed at studying dark energy and mapping the structure of the universe by tracking the distribution of neutral hydrogen. CETC said in June that the main structure of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations (BINGO) telescope had been shipped from China to Brazil.

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