CHINA-ARGENTINA: SPACE COOPERATION
Of strategic is a communique signed on February 5, 2015, between China and Argentina outlining co-operation in space. According to this, China will build and man a new space tracking and control station on a 200 hectare facility in the southern Argentine province of Neuquen. For China this facility provides a vital deep southern hemisphere node for global ground-based tracking and control, which is needed to manage its growing satellite networks, manned space stations, and lunar programme. Argentine sources note that a crucial quid-pro-quo is that Buenos Aires will gain access to strategic information from China's formidable surveillance satellite constellation.
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