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New Delhi, Dec 25: Taking their fast-growing ties a step further, India and Israel on Tuesday signed a statement on co-operation in science and technology. Following talks between minister of state for science and technology Bachi Singh Rawat and his Israeli counterpart Eleizer Sandberg, several areas of co-operation were identified, including joint development and upgradation of science and technology projects as well as joint projects in space. The minister reviewed the nine ongoing projects signed between the two countries besides exploring new areas of co-operation, mostly in the field of genomes.
Accompanying the Israeli minister to India was the director-general of the Israeli Space Agency (ISA), Avy Har-Even, whose specific charter was the signing of an memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the Tauvex project.
The Tauvex is a set of three wide-field telescopes that will image the ultraviolet (UV) sky on an Indian satellite, the GSAT-4. The specific objective of the mission is to collate data on the universe through UV, not available with other kinds of satellites such as the Hubble, and offers a unique opportunity to put Indian and Israeli scientists in the forefront of space-astrophysics.
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| Director-general of the Israeli Space Agency Avy Har-Even |
Out of a total budget of $40 million for the Tauvex project, Israel has invested around $4 million to change the interface of the satellite to make it compatible with...
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