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  • Indian, French space agencies sign pact; team up on moon mission, space launchers

    Indian, French space agencies sign pact; team up on moon mission, space launchers

    MUMBAI: Indian Space Research Organisation and French Space agency (CNES) have signed a partnership agreement in satellite launch technology. The pact was inked between ISRO chairman Kiran Kumar and CNES president Jean-Yves Le Gall in the presence of the visiting French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault.

    Space cooperation between India and France spans over 50 years and is a cornerstone of the Indo-French strategic partnership. Joining forces with Team Indus on this maiden private mission to land a rover on the moon, CNES is sending the French technology for the first time on lunar terrain.

    With the new pact, India and France will improve cooperation on an upcoming lunar rover and future space launchers. Strengthening the CNES-ISRO partnership will enable France to benefit from the Indian model of streamlining the costs of space programmes.

    Ayrault, accompanied by the French delegation, was given a guided tour of ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network) by the Kumar, according to a French Consulate release, PTI reported.

    ISTRAC monitors Indian space missions, including the two Indo-French satellites currently in orbit for collecting data to track climate change. ISRO is the second partner of CNES, in terms of volume, after NASA. Of comparable size and sharing similar objectives, the space programmes of both countries are complementary, it was noted.

    Later, Ayrault met Indian “NewSpace” start-up CEO Rahul Narayan. This start-up put forward TeamIndus, the only Indian team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a global competition for engineers and entrepreneurs to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration.

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  • Indian, French space agencies sign pact; team up on moon mission, space launchers

    Indian, French space agencies sign pact; team up on moon mission, space launchers

    MUMBAI: Indian Space Research Organisation and French Space agency (CNES) have signed a partnership agreement in satellite launch technology. The pact was inked between ISRO chairman Kiran Kumar and CNES president Jean-Yves Le Gall in the presence of the visiting French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault.

    Space cooperation between India and France spans over 50 years and is a cornerstone of the Indo-French strategic partnership. Joining forces with Team Indus on this maiden private mission to land a rover on the moon, CNES is sending the French technology for the first time on lunar terrain.

    With the new pact, India and France will improve cooperation on an upcoming lunar rover and future space launchers. Strengthening the CNES-ISRO partnership will enable France to benefit from the Indian model of streamlining the costs of space programmes.

    Ayrault, accompanied by the French delegation, was given a guided tour of ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network) by the Kumar, according to a French Consulate release, PTI reported.

    ISTRAC monitors Indian space missions, including the two Indo-French satellites currently in orbit for collecting data to track climate change. ISRO is the second partner of CNES, in terms of volume, after NASA. Of comparable size and sharing similar objectives, the space programmes of both countries are complementary, it was noted.

    Later, Ayrault met Indian “NewSpace” start-up CEO Rahul Narayan. This start-up put forward TeamIndus, the only Indian team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a global competition for engineers and entrepreneurs to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration.

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    ISRO to launch 103 satellites early Feb

     

  • ISRO unites sixty space agencies to work on climate change

    ISRO unites sixty space agencies to work on climate change

    NEW DELHI: Space agencies of more than 60 countries have agreed to engage their satellites to coordinate their methods and their data to monitor human-induced greenhouse gas emissions following an initiative by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency (CNES). 

    The COP21 Climate Conference held in Paris last December acted as a wake-up call in this context. Without satellites, the reality of global warming would not have been recognised and the subsequent historic agreement at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 22 April 2016 would not have been signed. Out of the 50 essential climate variables being monitored today, 26 – including rising sea levels, sea ice extent and greenhouse gas concentrations in all layers of the atmosphere – can be measured only from space. 

    The key to effectively implementing the Paris Agreement lies in the ability to verify that nations are fulfilling their commitments to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Only satellites can do that.

    Invited to New Delhi by ISRO and CNES on 3 April 2016, the world’s space agencies decided to establish ‘an independent, international system’ to centralise data from their Earth-observing satellites through the ‘New Delhi Declaration’ that officially came into effect on 16 May 2016. 

    The goal now will be to inter-calibrate these satellite data so that they can be combined and compared over time. In other words, it is to make the transition to closely coordinated and easily accessible ‘big space data’. 

    “It is overwhelming to see the unilateral support of all space agencies to use space inputs for monitoring climate change,” said ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar. “Earth observation satellites provide a vital means of obtaining measurements of the climate system from a global perspective. ISRO is committed for the continuity of earth observation data, through the thematic series of satellites, with improvements en-route, to meet contemporary as well as future needs. ISRO is also engaging with CNES, JAXA and NASA for realising joint missions for global climate observation with advanced instruments.” 

    “This is a historic event that reaches far beyond the space sector and is a perfect example of the kind of success that can only be achieved through international cooperation” said CNES president Jean-Yves Le Gall. “With this consensus among space agencies from more than 60 nations, including the world’s leading space powers, the international space community and scientists now have the tools they need to put their talent, intelligence and optimism to work for the good of humankind and our planet.” 

  • ISRO unites sixty space agencies to work on climate change

    ISRO unites sixty space agencies to work on climate change

    NEW DELHI: Space agencies of more than 60 countries have agreed to engage their satellites to coordinate their methods and their data to monitor human-induced greenhouse gas emissions following an initiative by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency (CNES). 

    The COP21 Climate Conference held in Paris last December acted as a wake-up call in this context. Without satellites, the reality of global warming would not have been recognised and the subsequent historic agreement at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 22 April 2016 would not have been signed. Out of the 50 essential climate variables being monitored today, 26 – including rising sea levels, sea ice extent and greenhouse gas concentrations in all layers of the atmosphere – can be measured only from space. 

    The key to effectively implementing the Paris Agreement lies in the ability to verify that nations are fulfilling their commitments to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Only satellites can do that.

    Invited to New Delhi by ISRO and CNES on 3 April 2016, the world’s space agencies decided to establish ‘an independent, international system’ to centralise data from their Earth-observing satellites through the ‘New Delhi Declaration’ that officially came into effect on 16 May 2016. 

    The goal now will be to inter-calibrate these satellite data so that they can be combined and compared over time. In other words, it is to make the transition to closely coordinated and easily accessible ‘big space data’. 

    “It is overwhelming to see the unilateral support of all space agencies to use space inputs for monitoring climate change,” said ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar. “Earth observation satellites provide a vital means of obtaining measurements of the climate system from a global perspective. ISRO is committed for the continuity of earth observation data, through the thematic series of satellites, with improvements en-route, to meet contemporary as well as future needs. ISRO is also engaging with CNES, JAXA and NASA for realising joint missions for global climate observation with advanced instruments.” 

    “This is a historic event that reaches far beyond the space sector and is a perfect example of the kind of success that can only be achieved through international cooperation” said CNES president Jean-Yves Le Gall. “With this consensus among space agencies from more than 60 nations, including the world’s leading space powers, the international space community and scientists now have the tools they need to put their talent, intelligence and optimism to work for the good of humankind and our planet.” 

  • Isro, Arianespace, CNes complete 25 years of cooperation

    Isro, Arianespace, CNes complete 25 years of cooperation

    MUMBAI: European satellite launch firm Arianespace has announced that exactly 25 years ago (19 June 1981), Europe’s Ariane launcher orbited the Indian experimental satellite Apple, built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).

    Since then, Arianespace, Isro and the French space agency CNes have developed a space partnership, forging commercial, government and industrial alliances. 

    Within the scope of this cooperation, Isro and Arianespace have signed 13 launch contracts to date. Since the first launch in June 1981, eleven other satellites have been successfully launched by Ariane rockets from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Arianespace also has a 13th satellite in its order book, Insat 4B, scheduled for launch in the first quarter of 2007.

    In March 2004, Arianespace signed a collaboration agreement with Antrix, the company that markets Indian launch vehicles. Since then Arianespace has offered India’s PSLV and GSLV launchers, most notably as backup for small satellites which Arianespace’s own family of launchers cannot handle.

    Arianespace recently signed a launch service contract for European operator Eutelsat’s W2M satellite. W2M will be built by a new consortium of Antrix and Astrium Satellites, which proposes a satellite platform built by Isro equipped with a payload supplied by Astrium Satellites.

    The collaboration between the Indian and French space agencies kicked off in 1972 with the signature of a bipartite agreement, followed in 1993 by a more general framework agreement. Isro and CNes have teamed up on major projects over the years, most notably in Earth Observation, with the Megha-Tropiques mission, and in telemedicine.

    Today, new collaborations are being studied in oceanography, data collection and radio communications, and will enable the two agencies and their teams to further strengthen their relationship.