*Paromita Das
The Indian government’s Department of Space is currently collaborating with nations such as Russia, the United States, France, Japan, and Israel in the field of space science and technology.
This is consistent with the state-run Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) efforts to pursue cooperation with other nations’ space agencies, such as through joint missions, sharing expertise in space technology applications, and hosting international events in India.
According to the Department of Space Annual Report for 2021-22, India has signed space cooperation documents with 60 countries agencies and five multinational bodies to date.
The report discusses the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, for which ISRO shipped the S-band SAR payload and other hardware to NASA’s JPL for various joint S-band & L-band payload integration tests, as one of the major areas of cooperation between ISRO and foreign space agencies.
Concerning Russia, four Indian astronaut candidates from the Gaganyaan, India’s Human Spaceflight Programme, completed general astronaut training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.
ISRO and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have begun exploring space research collaboration as a new initiative under India-Russia space cooperation.
The French Space Agency CNES and the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO are expanding their collaboration beyond Earth observation to include Human Spaceflight and Space Situational Awareness (SSA – the tracking of space debris and orbital objects). In addition, there are discussions about establishing an ISRO ground station in French Guyana.
The French Space Agency CNES and the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO are expanding their collaboration beyond Earth observation to include Human Spaceflight and Space Situational Awareness (SSA – the tracking of space debris and orbital objects). In addition, there are discussions about establishing an ISRO ground station in French Guyana.
“As part of India-Australia space cooperation, talks are underway to establish ISRO’s transportable ground station for the Gaganyaan mission on Australia’s Cocos-Keeling island (CKI). ISRO and the Israel Space Agency (ISA) have held a kick-off meeting to discuss cooperation in the use of the ISA’s Electric Propulsion System (EPS) in ISRO’s small satellite “According to the report,
The Indian Space Agency’s launch and mission schedules were severely hampered during the pandemic years 2020 and 2021, and the backlog remains. As a result, work on a number of high-profile missions, including Chandrayaan-3, Lunar exploration via Lander and Rover, Gaganyaan, a Human Spaceflight to Low Earth Orbit, and Aditya L1, is still ongoing spacecraft mission to probe the sun.
While it was previously stated that Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan (first unmanned flight) could take place in 2022, recent announcements in the Indian Parliament suggest that they may not take place until 2023 or later.
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