Bengaluru: ISRO’s first manned mission to space announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day will have a collaboration with France as the two countries announced to form a working group for Gaganyaan.

The announcement was made during the sixth edition of the Bengaluru Space Expo by Jean-Yves Le Gall – French space agency president.

India has set a plan for its first human space mission ‘Gaganyaan’ and plans to send three humans before 2022.

The mission of Indian Space Organization is to make India one of the four countries in the world after Russia, US and China to launch a human space flight.

Both the agencies of ISRO and CNES of France will combine both of their expertise in fields related to space medicine, life support, space debris protection, astronaut health monitoring, radiation protection and personal hygiene systems, President of CNES, Mr. Gall said here.

According to Mr. Gall, engineering teams have already begun discussions and the aim is that infrastructure like CADMOS center for development of microgravity applications and space operations or the MEDES space clinic will be utilized for training of future Indian astronauts. Along with that exchange of specialist, personnel will also be done.

The experiments related to microgravity will be conducted by ISRO on its astronauts.

With a total fleet of joint satellites specially devoted to research and operational applications, innovation, French-Indian space cooperation will span in various areas like climate monitoring etc. and this will be done through a joint technical group tasked with inventing the launch vehicles of the future.

Both the agencies want to have a long relationship to work on Mars, Venus and asteroids.

Mr. Gall said, “CNES is especially proud to be working on this endeavor alongside ISRO to share the experience it has acquired from the first French human spaceflights to Thomas Pesquet’s Proxima mission, and to hone our own expertise by learning from ISRO’s innovative developments in the field of crew transport.”

Gaganyaan will be the first Indian manned space mission when launched into space. The capacity of the spacecraft is 3 persons and planned upgraded version of it will be equipped with facilities of rendezvous and docking capability. During its maiden crewed mission, ISRO largely autonomous 3.7-tonne capsule will orbit the Earth at 400 km altitude for a period of seven days and there will be three Indians in the crew on board.

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