Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi after the end of the negotiations, the Russian President said the following: "Actually, a real mechanism of effective interaction between our states in outer space has been created, including the implementation of large-scale programs and projects."
In his opinion, this work progresses rhythmically and consistently from year to year.
Within the framework of the Russian President's visit to India, the parties also signed an agreement in the field of joint development and operation of the GLONASS Russian global navigation satellite system.
As head of Russia's Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov told RIA Novosti and some leading Indian mass media sources, "this is very important for us because the space sector of this navigation system is in its uncompleted form in Russia and is missing in India," Mr. Perminov stressed.
"We agreed both to restore this system by joint efforts and organize its transition to new GLONASS-M and GLONASS-K space devices," the head of Russia's space agency specified.
As Anatoly Perminov told RIA Novosti, by 2007 Russia intended to increase, with the participation of India, the grouping of GLONASS global navigation system to 18 satellites. Today 11 GLONASS satellites are operational in orbits.
GLONASS global system navigation satellites will be delivered into outer space both by Russian and Indian boosters. "We shall launch these space devices both from Russian space centers and from the Indian space center with the use of Indian boosters," he said. For this purpose, we shall have to create jointly a ground component," the head of Russia's space agency added.
