EFE.- The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement this Saturday to cooperate in the training of astronauts, in the execution of space missions and in the development of research experiments.
The Indian agency reported the agreement, signed between the president of ISRO, Sreedhara Somanath, and the director general of the ESA, Josef Aschbacher, in a statement.
“The agreement provides a framework for cooperative activities in human space exploration and research, especially in areas such as astronaut training, support for development and integration of experiments,” the ISRO statement said.
The agreement includes the possibility of joint use of ESA facilities on the International Space Station, the implementation of biomedical experiments, and the development of joint education and outreach activities, according to the Indian space agency.
Both agencies have already collaborated in the past on several projects, most recently the successful launch of the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre, aboard the Indian PSLV-C59 rocket.
In addition, European astronauts – from Poland and Hungary – and a ‘gaganyatri’ (the name with which India baptizes its space crew) from ISRO will be part of the private Axiom Mission 4 mission that is scheduled to launch before spring 2025. .
Specifically, Somanath and Aschbacher reiterated this Saturday the opportunities for collaboration between India and Europe in the field of manned space flights.
The Indian space industry is in full growth, with a defined roadmap for the coming decades, in which it hopes to have its own space station or put an astronaut on the Moon.
In August 2023, the unmanned Chandrayaan-3 mission made India the first country to successfully land on the south pole of the Moon, a hitherto unexplored area of the satellite.
In addition, in September 2023, it launched its first mission to study the Sun, Aditya-L1 (Sun, in Sanskrit) and plans to build a space station by 2035, sending the first astronaut to the Moon in 2040 or new missions to the Moon. neighboring planets Venus and Mars.
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