India has signed 250 documents in the field of space cooperation with 59 countries, these are to promote India’s capabilities and also to help other nations aspiring to space to benefit from space, said ISRO President Dr. K . If they go. He added that India’s main cooperation in the field of space technology was with Russia, the United States, France, Japan and Israel, and explained the ongoing and future projects. The president of India’s space agency spoke at the plenary session of the International Austronautical Congress (IAC) 2020.
According to Sivan, India’s manned spaceflight program, Gaganyaan, has been going strong, with astronauts trained by Russia and critical medical technologies provided by France. However, he said that due to Covid-19, the Gaganyaan project would see a little change. “We were initially targeting a launch in August 2022 and there is a small change in orientation. We are trying to get the help of other nations that are sailing through space to get things done, ”he said.
In his 2018 Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that when the country celebrates its 75th year of independence in 2022, an Indian son or daughter will fly into space as part of the Gaganyaan Human Spaceflight mission. This is India’s most ambitious and challenging mission yet.
Digging deeper into work with foreign space agencies, Sivan said the partnerships ranged from cooperation on manned spaceflight to planetary exploration and joint experiments. “We have a NISAR synthetic aperture radar satellite from NASA-ISRO, we are also working with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to share satellite data. France is an important partner and we have launched two joint satellites Megha tropiques and Saral and the retired mission is underway. ISRO is partnering with the Japanese space agency JAXA to build a joint lunar polar exploration mission. Our cooperation with the German DLR Agency is in robotics and Artificial Intelligence. In the field of electric propulsion system and the support of deep space network antennas, we are working with the Israeli Space Agency (ISA) ”, he stated.
When asked about upcoming rocket launches this year, Dr. Sivan said the agency is planning to launch the PSLV rocket in November. This would also be this year’s inaugural launch, as ISRO launches were impacted after Covid-19 lockdown measures introduced various travel restrictions. As India’s space activities spread across centers in various parts of the country, it has become a challenge for officials and scientists to travel to do their work.
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“For the India spaceport, people have to travel from other ISRO facilities located far away to carry out the work, so there are some delays in the missions. We are planning the launch of the PSLV C-49 in the first week of November. Subsequently, all missions will go according to plan, ”he said.
Adding that international cooperation was the hallmark of the Indian space program, Sivan, who also serves as secretary of the Space Department, said that ISRO had delivered a 2-month hands-on training in nano-satellite construction for 60 officials from 33 countries. .
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