On the same day, a MINUSTAH soldier was killed and another injured during an attack by unidentified armed persons while manning a checkpoint near Terre Rouge.

Similarly, Moroccan and Spanish troops have been cooperating very successfully since taking over from the Chilean battalion at Fort Liberté and Terre Rouge in the north east of Haiti.

On 21 March, MINUSTAH recovered the police station in Terre Rouge, believed to have been used as a base by those who attacked the MINUSTAH checkpoint no casualties were reported.

The first Swedish built satellite was the 283 kg Viking, which was launched into low polar orbit in 1986 in a piggyback configuration with the French remote sensing satellite, satellite pour l apos observation de la Terre (SPOT).

UNOPS has brokered agreements for satellite imagery, such as Satellite pour l'observation de la Terre (SPOT) and Ikonos data, to ensure that United Nations entities receive imagery at the lowest cost and with the best available licence agreement.

The in situ monitoring available in the MEPHISTO (French Material pour l apos Etude des Phenomenes Interessant la Solidification sur Terre et en Orbite) apparatus enabled the study of transport and kinetic phenomena during crystal growth of bismuth tin alloys.

The Earth Observation Centre receives and processes remote sensing data by means of satellites. It now receives and processes data from the Marine Observation Satellites 1 and 1b (MOS 1 1b) of Japan, the United States Land Remote Sensing Satellite (LANDSAT), the satellite système probatoire d apos observation de la terre (SPOT) (the French remote sensing satellite), the European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (ERS 1) and the Japanese Earth Resource Satellite (JERS 1).