CANADA TO PARTICIPATE IN INDIA’S
MOON MISSION
Canada is to participate
in India’s mission to moon. This is one of the areas of joint
collaboration envisaged in a Memorandum of Understanding signed
between the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Canadian
Space Agency. The other areas of collaboration include, satellite
communications, Remote sensing as well as encouragement of academia
and private sector participation in the use and exploration of
space.
The two sides also
signed a letter of intent referring to several projects and programmes
in which they have mutual interest. These cover, provision of
bilateral support to telemetry, tracking and command operations
for satellites and canadian support to the UN Centre for Space
Science and Technology education set up at Dehradun and cooperation
in the development of scientific instruments that could be flown
aboard Indian satellites.
The MoU was signed
by Chairman ISRO Dr. K. Kasturirangan and the President of the
Canadian Space Agency Dr. Marc Garneau in Bangalore yesterday.
Dr. Garneau an astronaut himself has flown three times on US Space
Shuttle Missions. Commending India’s Space programme as very impressive
Dr. Garneau said the scope and breadth of ISRO’s projects are
both ambitious and diversified. Dr. Kasturirangan said, the two
sides share common goals on telecommunications, meteorology, disaster
warning, management of natural resources and environmental monitoring.
