We have complete trust in our Indian partners: French National Space Agency
The French space agency CNES has reaffirmed its confidence in ISRO despite recent technical setbacks involving the PSLV rocket. Both agencies are moving forward with the joint TRISHNA mission, which aims to monitor climate change and water resource management.
Why it matters
This partnership highlights the resilience of international space cooperation and the strategic importance of Indo-French collaboration in addressing global climate and environmental challenges.
The French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) said that it is not perturbed with the back-to-back failures of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO)’s workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), and has complete trust in its Indian partner.
The PSLV is scheduled to launch the Indo-French TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment) mission next year which is a collaborative endeavor between ISRO and CNES.
“There is always a risk with launches and we know the risks. You must trust your partners and trust is very important in space cooperation because we do difficult things together and to do difficult things you trust each other. ISRO is a huge space player in the world, they know what to do. So we trust them for the launch and the satellite also,” Lionel Suchet, Chief Operating Officer, CNES told The Hindu .
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