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 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”.
The two sides exchanged information on a range of space and other policy issues and noted ongoing efforts to open up new opportunities for collaboration. Through expanded cooperation between their technical agencies that operate earth observing satellites, the two countries also agreed on a number of measures that will improve the use of this data to promote sustainable development.
