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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