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SECESA 2012 - Lisbon

13 November 2012 The city of Lisbon was the venue for the fifth International Workshop on Systems and Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications (SECESA 2012) jointly organised by ESA and the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) at the Almeda campus. Once again, the workshop proved to be an excellent forum for systems engineers and specialists working in a concurrent engineering environment to discuss common problems, show each other new software, applications, tools and methodologies and to share the direction being taken by others in the space engineering community.

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First Chinese Woman in Space, Mrs Liu Yang, visits CDF

12 October 2012 Mrs Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman astronaut in space, and part of the Shenzhou 9 mission to rendezvous and dock with the Tiangong 1 space module, visited the CDF on 5 October 2012 as part of a delegation from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSEO).

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