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NASA’s Maven spacecraft arrived at the Mars late on Sunday night (September 21) before India's mission arrived on Mars (September 23)
NASA, ISRO to Share Martian Data
By Express News Service
Published: 24th September 2014 06:04 AM
BANGALORE: India’s maiden mission to Mars, the Mangalyaan,
has received active cooperation from the American space agency NASA.
This is part of the civil space co-operation agreement between India and the US, which also concerns joint development of new scientific products.
According to officials, the idea of a Joint Working Group (JWG) on Mars is beneficial to both sides as the orbiters-The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) and Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) can share their findings. MAVEN, which will help NASA understand how Mars changed from a warm planet to a cold wasteland, is not equipped to study methane sources.
This is however a significant payload on MOM. “There will be a meeting of the scientific community post the insertion of MOM into orbit on Wednesday. Our orbiter can complement MAVEN and there will be no clash as such between the two,” ISRO secretary, Koteswara Rao had said recently. However, there has been no formal announcement of a JWG yet and it is expected to be announced during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US this week.
Another opportunity for NASA and ISRO to work together will be when the comet Siding Spring passes within a distance of 1,32,000 km from Mars on October 19. “Three out of the five payloads on MOM can be used to observe the comet in October,” Rao said.
NASA, ISRO to Share Martian Data -The New Indian Express
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Nasa, Isro in talks for jointly developing satellite for first time
Jul 29, 2013, 07.42PM IST
BANGALORE: US space agency
Nasa and India's premier space agency Isro are in talks for jointly building a
satellite for the first time.
"Now, there is a feasibility study going on whether we can jointly make a satellite, with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payloads working on two frequency bands - L-band and S-band", Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K Radhakrishnan told PTI here.
Charles F Bolden Jr, Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) of United States, visited the Space Applications Centre (SAC) of Isro in Ahmedabad on June 25.
He had a meeting with Radhakrishnan, also Secretary, Department of Space, along with senior officials of Isro to discuss the ongoing cooperative activities between ISRO and NASA and also the potential areas of future cooperation.
"...the joint satellite mission is an important step. It's not making an instrument and plugging it actually. It's working together. That's what we are discussing. It (working together) should happen in the next few months", Radhakrishnan said.
"Both organisations are coming together and saying let's develop it together...use your strength, use my strength. That's a good way of working", he said.
"It (the proposed satellite) is interesting from scientific point of view, it's interesting from normal resource management point of view," he said.
Radhakrishnan said Nasa's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory would make the radar system "if it (in case of Nasa, Isro deciding to work together on the mission) is getting through".
On Isro's role, he said, "We will be working together. Some will be built by us, some will be built by them. So, this (work-sharing) has to be finalised", adding, data generated by the mission would be used by both Isro and Nasa.
Radhakrishnan hinted at the possibility of Isro making the satellite for the joint mission, with launch from Indian soil.
In this context, he pointed to the Indo-French joint satellite missions Megha-Tropiques and Saral, with Paris opting for Indian satellites for the ventures with 'desi' rockets.
India's 2008 Chandrayaan-1 mission
had two instruments from USA.
Mini Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) was from
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory and Naval Air Warfare Centre, USA through Nasa. MiniSAR was mainly intended for detecting water ice in the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar poles up to a depth of a few meters.
Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an imaging spectrometer from
Brown University and JPL through Nasa, was intended to assess and map lunar mineral resources at high spatial and spectral resolution.
Nasa, Isro in talks for jointly developing satellite for first time - The Times of India
