The ISRO and the European Space Agency (ESA) have extended their Cooperative Agreement for 5 years until January 8, 2032.
The agreement was formalized through an exchange of letters signed in Paris, France, during the International Space Summit.
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The ISRO and the European Space Agency (ESA) have extended their Cooperative Agreement for 5 years until January 8, 2032.
The agreement was formalized through an exchange of letters signed in Paris, France, during the International Space Summit.
Isar Aerospace, a Germany-based aerospace company, has launched its Spectrum rocket from the Andoya Spaceport in Norway under its second-flight mission titled ‘Onward and Upward’. The rocket is designed to carry payloads of up to 1,000 kg to the Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
The mission successfully deployed 5 CubeSats, namely CyBEEsat (Germany), TriSat-S (Slovenia), Platform 6 (Bulgaria), FramSat-1 (Norway), and SpaceTeamSat1 (Austria).
Sophie Adenot, an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) from France, has conducted a mission to repair a communications system on the International Space Station (ISS).
With this, she becomes the first French woman to perform a spacewalk.
It is to be noted that she is also the second European woman to walk in space, following Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy who completed a spacewalk in 2022.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully launched a joint spacecraft named “Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)” onboard the Vega-C rocket from the Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana.
It is to be noted that the scientific observations are scheduled to begin 3 months post-launch, and the SMILE mission is projected to operate for a duration of 3 years to improve protection against solar and geomagnetic storms.