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ISRO to score 100 with a cooperative mission
Sep 9
Monday August 27, 2012 06:50:01 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: The 100th launch mission of the Indian
space agency slated for Sep 9 will also showcase the cooperation
between two global competitors, a growing trend in the space
industry, said a senior official of Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO).
"India's Antrix Corporation and the French company Astrium SAS
compete in the global market for vending remote sensing satellite
imageries. The SPOT and Indian remote sensing satellites are the
two leading earth observation satellite series. But next month an
Indian rocket will be launching its competitor's satellite SPOT
6," the official told IANS.
A research report by the US-based Futron Corporation also said
that international collaboration was increasingly taking shape as
a concerted space competitiveness strategy, especially among
smaller players in the field.
At a space conference held in Mysore, ISRO Chairman K.
Radhakrishnan said that collaborating and partnering with each
other would be a win-win for all the stakeholders owing to cost
prohibitive space missions that require enormous human and
associated resources.
According to ISRO, the satellite launch agreement between Antrix
and Astrium is part of the long-term agreement signed between the
two agencies in Sep 2008.
In Nov 2010, under an agreement between Antrix and Astrium, a
communication satellite HYLAS was built by ISRO and Astrium for a
European customer.
ISRO officials said that SPOT 6 and its co-passenger Japanese
satellite Proiteres were in the final stages of assembling and
testing at the first launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The satellites would be carried by the Indian rocket Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
According to ISRO, India has built 62 satellites and 37 rockets
starting from its first satellite Aryabhatta and rocket satellite
launch vehicle (SLV). The total number of space missions till date
is 99.
"ISRO counts each of its rocket flights as a single mission. If
our satellite is launched by a foreign rocket then it is counted
as single mission. Whereas if an Indian rocket (PSLV) launches
multiple satellites built and owned by ISRO then each satellite is
counted individually as a mission," said an ISRO official.
Launching foreign and satellites owned by other Indian
organisations are not counted as a mission.
India began its space journey in 1975 with the launch of
Aryabhatta using a Russian rocket.
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