India has been the most successful in Space Research competing with all the countries in the World. ISRO scientists have been working very hard to develop the research in India taking it to the next level. The first Mission to Mars was Mangalyaan by India was successful in the Era of Indian Space Research. Now India’s next mission to Mars will have a French connection and the two countries could together attempt to put a lander on the red planet.
“After India’s Mars orbiter, the next step has to be a lander. A lander on Mars is not easy, but it will be interesting to undertake,” Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French Space Agency CNES said. France President was invited as the Chief Guest on the Republic Day and his visit resulted in bonding the two countries.
India and France on Monday forged a new friendship in space technology at talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande. Among the 14 agreements that India and France signed after the two leaders held talks yesterday was a letter of intent on CNES participating in the Indian Space Research Organization or ISRO’s next Mars mission, expected around 2020.
Mr. Le Gall said France would bring to the partnership its scientific expertise on the planets Mars and Venus. “India’s Mangalyaan is very impressive,” he said and praised that “Mangalyaan is a good example of Make in India and of low-cost (450-crore) space exploration.” The Mangalyan mission was launched on a homegrown PSLV rocket from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on November 5, 2013.
In September 2014, ISRO successfully placed the low-cost Mars spacecraft in orbit around the planet in its very first attempt, breaking into an elite club of three – only the US, Russia and Europe had so far undertaken successful missions to Mars or its orbit.