As the second China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite (CBERS-2) ends its five year mission, the new director of the Brazilian Space Agency, Carlos Ganem, professed a continued commitment to cooperate with China to fulfill Brazil’s ambitious space program. The two countries will jointly launch CBERS-3 and CBERS-4 by the end of 2008. Brazil will also depend heavily on Chinese experts in an effort to develop and launch a satellite transport rocket from the Alcantara launch facility by 2011. To this end, the BSA has just tested the second stage of a four-stage satellite launch vehicle.