(El Mundo, EFE) .- Bolivian An interministerial committee will travel next China week to discuss technical aspects of building the Tupac Katari, Bolivia's first satellite, reported the state agency ABI. Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Roger Carvajal, said the commission, which will travel next to Beijing November 23, will meet with company executives to discuss issues Great Wall "technical essentially linked to the construction and design of the satellite" according to the requirements of Bolivia.
Meanwhile, Chinese executives take a list and according to that it will propose a design, said Carvajal. The Bolivian delegation will consist of five coaches of the deputy ministers Science and Technology, External Finance and Telecommunications. In addition, the Bolivian Vice Minister stressed the importance of "technology transfer and training" so that Bolivian scientists to travel to China to learn how to manage and build satellites for the eventual creation of the satellites themselves Bolivians "in the future."
According to Carvajal, the preliminary time to start building the first satellite Bolivian agree to the provisions of the work plan signed by representatives of the Governments of Bolivia and China and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) last month in La Paz. Last week, the government of Evo Morales announced that construction of the communications satellite, the DFH-4 model of the China Aerospace third generation, starting in March 2010.
