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Japan to Sign Space Accord with Canada
By Daniel Sorid
Staff Writer
posted: 07:01 am ET
10 September 1999
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Canada will soon begin exchanging personnel with the Japanese Space Agency, possibly to support space robotics research, a Canadian Space Agency spokesman said ThursdayCanada will soon begin exchanging personnel with the Japanese Space Agency, possibly to support space robotics research, a Canadian Space Agency spokesman said Thursday. The two parties are scheduled to sign an agreement in Japan on September 17 as part of a large international trade mission. Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretién will be in attendance as CSA President Mac Evans and Isao Uchida, president of Japan's National Aeronautics and Space Development Agency, sign the agreement, according to the Japanese. Possible areas of cooperation include Earth observation, space robotics, and microgravity physics, said CSA spokesman Michel Giroux. Both the Japanese and Canadians are designing robotic systems for the International Space Station. Giroux said he expects that to have at least one CSA scientist at NASDA at all times, and vice versa. The two countries' space relations date back 25 years, with observations of the Aurora Borealis.
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