Washington: India and the US have agreed to cooperate on future missions to the Moon and Mars after successful collaboration in Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission.
"Building on NASA's collaboration in India's highly successful Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission in 2008, NASA and ISRO agreed to explore further cooperative space exploration work, including future missions to the Moon and Mars. To this end the working group agreed to continue discussions in planetary science and Heliophysics to identify areas of potential cooperation," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) said in a joint statement.
"The value of bilateral cooperation was well reflected, for instance, through the inclusion of two NASA instruments on the successful Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission, which led to significant discoveries about lunar surface characteristics," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said at the fourth US-India Civil Space Joint Working Group meeting....
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03:00 PM, Mar 23, 2013
India's first Mars Orbit mission this year offers an exciting opportunity for the collaboration between the two countries in this field, a senior US official has said. "We should seek to increase our commercial space cooperation and create opportunities for US and Indian companies and our very capable space science communities have much to offer each other through collaboration," said Geoffrey Pyatt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and...
06:35 AM, Mar 22, 2013
India will launch its first mission to Mars in 2013, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday, as the emerging Asian nation looks to play catch up in the global space race alongside the United States, Russia and its giant neighbour China. ...
04:43 AM, Feb 22, 2013
India's second lunar mission will be undertaken with Russian participation though it has got delayed, a top official of an ISRO lab said on Tuesday amidst reports that 'Chandrayaan 2' will be a solo mission. ...
03:20 AM, Jan 23, 2013
New Delhi: ISRO plans to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy 500 transponders in the next five years. The space agency also aims to deploy its own version of the Global Positioning System by putting into orbit a constellation of seven satellites which would form the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS)....
12:04 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Sriharikota: India's second moon mission will depend on Russia's decision after a failed inter-planetary mission with China, said India's space agency chief on Sunday, a day when it launched its 100th mission. He also ruled out any race with China to Mars. "Russia is reviewing its inter-planetary missions after a failed joint mission with China. For Chandrayaan-2, Russia has to provide the lander. India will build the lunar orbiter and...
06:34 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Bangalore: While the creations of Mayilsamy Annadurai, ISRO's programme director and chief problem solver for remote sensing satellites like the RISAT 1, always soar through the skies, his own background is a lot more humble. Annadurai has had a hand in almost every remote sensing satellite made at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). One of India's foremost scientists, he began his studies in the humblest of places. "Till the...
09:40 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Kochi: The film 'Chandrayaan', based on India's first mission to the moon, will hit the theatres after Onam. The movie, directed by Santhosh George Kulangara, which was screened at Savitha theatre on Saturday, is possibly the first science fiction movie in Kerala. Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan 2, was also present for the screening. George Kulangara said, "There have been science fiction movies such as Appollo at...
03:30 AM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: With the US lifting sanctions on ISRO, a top NASA laboratory has approached the Indian space agency with a proposal to collaborate for a moon mission aimed at getting back a kilogram of rocks from the lunar surface. The iconic Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has sent missions to Mars and Venus, wants ISRO to put a satellite around the moon which will be a link between its...
10:10 PM, Feb 13, 2011
New Delhi: India's space programme suffered a serious setback on Saturday evening when a Communication Satellite launched from Sriharikota exploded mid-air. It was the second satellite failure in six months. Scientists are divided, but the bigger worry is: What will happen to India's moon mission? The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle was launched with high hopes by the ISRO scientists. However, 47 seconds later hope turned into horror as the onboard...
02:15 PM, Dec 26, 2010
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Tucked away somewhere in the middle of the joint statement released by India and the US after President Obama's visit, is a small paragraph. It ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
Bangalore: Chandrayaan-2, the proposed second Indian mission to moon, would undertake "extremely good" experiments and try out new technologies but accommodating foreign payloads on board does not appear to be a possibility at this stage. The first edition of the moon odyssey had six foreign payloads and five Indian ones on board but heavy orbiter (satellite) and lander weight this time has put constraints on the Indian Space Research Organisation...
04:17 PM, Sep 07, 2010
On April 15, ISRO will launch an advanced communication satellite. ...
10:30 AM, Apr 08, 2010
NASA's Mini-SAR found more than 40 small craters with water ice. ...
02:25 PM, Mar 02, 2010
Stewart Nozette has been arrested by FBI on charges of spying for Israel. ...
09:04 AM, Oct 21, 2009
Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite will bomb the moon. ...
11:10 PM, Oct 08, 2009
ISRO chief says world can now dream of colonising moon. ...
01:16 AM, Sep 26, 2009
Chandrayaan-1 has helped give the world a great discovery. ...
09:35 PM, Sep 25, 2009
A historic discovery is opening gateways for a possible colonisation of the moon. ...
06:40 PM, Sep 25, 2009
India's next lunar mission will have more instruments to study moon. ...
03:18 PM, Sep 25, 2009
