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Gisat has completed a its DROMAS project. Two types of services were created. They are intended to monitor the health of agricultural crops and provide management and decision-making support at the farm level. Performance of services will be evaluated in a follow-up project within next three years.
TThe second day of the Congress IAC 2015 the CSO visited the Israel Aerospace Industries, started a discussion on the possibilities of presentation of Czech workplaces in the newly launched web portal ByHEAD.com, participated in the Executive Committee of the Space Generation Advisory Council and met with representatives of Astrobotic Technology.
The 66th International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem has just started. Visitors were welcomed in desert climate with temperatures reaching 30 °C and cloudless sky.
Former U.S. astronaut Scott E. Parazynski came to Prague to share his experience of space missions with the public. The Czech Space Office in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy organized two lectures attended by Czech and foreign astronautics enthusiatsts.
U.S. astronaut Scott Edward Parazynski is going to visit the Czech Republic in late August. He was involved in five missions onboard the U.S. space shuttle and seven times stepped into outer space. In Prague he will present his experience at two public lectures that will be held on Monday, August 24 in the building of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Czech students presented the international educational competition Expedition Mars during the Education and Outreach section of Humans in Space Symposium 2015. Their participation was ensured through the finnancial support of the Czech Space Office, the co-organizer of the event.
On 19 June, at the Polytechnic University in Rzeszów, representatives of Polish and foreign institutions arrived to the Forum of space and satellite technologies to discuss the potential of future development of the emerging Polish Space Agency. The discussion participated also Jan Kolář, director of the Czech Space Office.
The annual report describes the activities and results of the Czech Space Office in 2014. In this period, the activities of CSO projects were funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in the field of international cooperation in research and development EUPRO II, INGO II and in the Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness.
At the Czech Space Day conference of which the first one was held July 3 2015 at the CTU, there were students and young professionals discussing their activities and experiences in space and also took the chance to explore current opportunities for involvement in this area.
Today has finished Humans in Space Symposium 2015 organized by the Czech Space Office in cooperation with the International Academy of Astronautics, that lasted from Monday 29th June in Prague Hotel Diplomat. At the global event successfully participated twelve of the Czech scientists.
