Bengaluru: India and France are working on their third joint satellite mission, even as the bilateral space collaboration is entering into multiple domains, including human spaceflight programme, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said.
Sivan, also secretary in the department of space, said many French companies are keen to tap into opportunities thrown up by recent reforms injected into the space sector by the government.
“France is the biggest partner of India in space”, he said at the department of science and technology golden jubilee discourse on ‘unlocking India’s space potential – geospatial data and mapping’, an event presented on virtual mode by the National Council for Science and Technology Communication and ‘vigyan prasar’ on Friday.Read more..
