ISRO CNES Collaboration | Burning Issues Free PDF Download

ISRO, FRENCH SPACE AGENCY SEAL AGREEMENT ON MARITIME SECURITY

• The two nations will explore putting up a constellation of low-Earth orbiting satellites that will identify and track movement of ships globally – and in particular those moving in the Indian Ocean region where France has its Reunion Islands.

THE AGREEMENT

•  The agreement comes a year after the broad collaboration plan the two governments initiated during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit in March last 2018. Megha-Tropiques (of 2011) and
• SARAL-AltiKa (2013)

MEGHA-TROPIQUES

• Megha-Tropiques is an Indo-French Joint Satellite Mission for studying the water cycle and energy exchanges in the tropics. The main objective of this mission is to understand the life cycle of convective systems that influence the tropical weather and climate and their role in associated energy and moisture budget of the atmosphere in tropical regions.

SARAL-ALTIKA

• The SARAL mission results from the common interest of both CNES and ISRO in studying ocean from space using altimetry system and in promoting maximum use of the ARGOS Data Collecting System.
• Radar altimetry by satellite is a technique used in oceanography to measure, globally over the oceans, the sea level needed to understand ocean circulation and its variability.

 MARITIME SECURITY

• This will be India’s largest space cooperation with any country Constellation of new satellites for maritime awareness

OTHER INDO – FRENCH MISSIONS

• They are also working on the Trishna satellite for land Infrared monitoring and the Oceansat3-Argos mission.

Latest Burning Issues | Free PDF

Sharing is caring!