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On 6 February 2020, the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), represented by ROSA President, Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Moon Village Association (MVA), a non-governmental organisation based in Vienna, represented by President Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi. Having a common purpose of promoting space activities and science public outreach and education, the parties aim to strengthen the space sector's workforce through career development, education and industry outreach, and gender equity.

The President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, is leading the Delegation of Romania at the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Vienna (COPOUS) which is taking place in Vienna, 03 - 14 February 2020.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in the USA on a mission to study the Sun up-close.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites interested researchers to submit biology research ideas to be conducted on the International Space Station. The European Space Agency (ESA) issued a call for ideas to ramp up biology experiments in space and take findings further. The deadline is 12 February 2020.

A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. It is producing oxygen and metal out of simulated moondust.