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"NASA and ISRO/US, India to work together on Mars, Moon missions

Washington: India and the US have agreed to cooperate on missions to the Moon and Mars after successful collaboration in Chandrayaan-1 mission. "NASA and ISRO agreed to explore further cooperative space exploration work, including future missions to the Moon and Mars," ISRO and NASA said in a joint statement.

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.Noting that continued progress is being made in promoting compatibility and interoperability between the US Global
Positioning System (GPS) and the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), the joint statement said further work in this area will take place bilaterally and in multilateral bodies such as the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG).

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