India, Russia to deepen space ties, seal engine deal

New Delhi: India and Russia at Friday's annual summit are set to elevate cooperation in the space sector building on decades-long partnership including possible transfer of technology for semi-cryogenic rocket engines.The plan of space cooperation in future covers several joint areas, including engine development, crewed missions, orbital stations, personnel training, and rocket fuel, ET has learnt.It is learnt that Russia had agreed to 100% transfer of technology for RD-191M semi-cryogenic rocket engines to the Indian Space Research Organisation.Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov told Russian newspaper Izvestia on Wednesday that an announcement on space cooperation would be made as soon as "literally the day after tomorrow". He said the plan covers several joint areas, including engine development, crewed missions, orbital stations, personnel training, and rocket fuel.Bakanov said the partnership would focus on "mutually beneficial cooperation".Russia and India are also working on the mutual deployment of ground stations for their navigation satellite systems, GLONASS and NavIC for enhanced accuracy."Work is underway on the mutual parity placement of ground stations for collecting measurements of the Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS and the Indian regional navigation satellite system NavIC," Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov was recently quoted as saying by state-run TASS news agency.Alipov said space cooperation continues to be one of the strongest pillars of India-Russia partnership, covering manned missions like India's Gaganyaan programme, propulsion technologies, and satellite navigation.He also highlighted the steady growth in bilateral scientific and technological collaboration across sectors such as biomedicine, physics, chemistry, healthcare, and material sciences.

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