OREANDA-NEWS. March 15, 2010. According to Vladimir Putin, Russia and India will realize Indian cosmonaut space flight joint programme in 2015. This statement was made March 12th after the negotiations with Indian Prime-Minister at New Delhi.

Russian Prime-Minister notes, that Russian-Indian space cooperation is developing quite well and both sides plan the manned spaceflight for Indian cosmonaut for 2015.

Vice-premier Sergey Ivanov imposed the responsibility for this project to ROSCOSMOS. He said that Russian side must provide spaceship and descent module. He also stressed that this project isn’t related to ISS programme.

India isn’t ISS programme member state. ISS programme is cooperation between Russia, USA, Europe, Japan and Canada.

 Another event organized during visit of Vladimir Putin to India is the online conference with Indian community representatives. During the conference some questions of Russian-Indian space cooperation were discussed.

Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of Russian-Indian space cooperation in such matters as launch services for Indian satellites provided by Russia, joint manned spaceflight programmes, scientific exploration of outer space, particularly, Moon missions. Russian Prime-Minister mentioned that Russian strategic space programme plan emphasizes space cooperation as a major factor for space exploration and utilization.

Putin also stated the possibility of Indian participation in Russian satellite positioning programme GLONASS. The cooperation on questions of navigation can have a positive impact for both Russian and Indian economics.

Remote sensing was also stated as perspective way to develop Russian-Indian space cooperation, which can be used for ecological monitoring, natural resources exploration and security.

The result of Russian-Indian negotiations was a signature of important agreement series in matters of satellite positioning between public entities and private actors.