Recognizing the urgent threat of climate change, the United States and India are committed to bringing the Paris Agreement into force as quickly as possible. The two nations plan to work together to adopt in 2016 an ambitious amendment to phase-down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons – a potent...
NASA and India’s ISRO to Launch Satellite Ahead of Schedule
ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization is working with NASA to advance the launch of a satellite that was expected to be launched in 2021 to monitor climate change and earthquake patterns. The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR, is designed to observe and take measurements of some of...
NASA and ISRO Expand Collaboration on Earth, Mars Missions
NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have signed two documents to launch a joint NASA-ISRO satellite mission to observe Earth and establish a pathway for future joint missions to explore Mars. At the International Astronautical Congress held on September 30, 2014 in Toronto, NASA administrator Charles Bolden and...
India Heads to Mars
At 2:38 PM on Tuesday November 5 Indian Standard Time, India’s maiden mission to Mars took off from the Satish Dhavan Space Center (SHAR) in Sriharikota on the Bay of Bengal. It was just two days after the moonless night of Deepawali (or Diwali), the festival which Indian celebrate with...
India, U.S. to co-operate in Moon, Mars Missions
India and the United States have agreed to expand their cooperation in civil space activities ranging from weather and monsoon forecasting to cooperative space exploration work, including future mission to the moon and Mars. According to a joint statement issued after the meeting, it was said that "Building on NASA's...