- Overview: India and France have signed a historic agreement to protect their assets in outer space. The new pact focuses entirely on defending critical satellites from cyber-attacks and Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons.
- Key Points:
- Protecting the Orbit: Modern wars are fought in space as much as on land. This pact allows both nations to share highly classified satellite monitoring data to protect their space infrastructure.
- Tracking Space Debris: ISRO and the French Space Agency (CNES) will now work together to track dangerous space debris and monitor the movements of hostile foreign spy satellites.
- A Shared Cyber Shield: If a hacker attempts to hijack or blind an Indian or French satellite, the control centers in both nations will work simultaneously to block the attack.
- A Democratic Space Bloc: This partnership ensures that the Earth’s orbit remains free, safe, and not monopolized by a single aggressive superpower.
- Q7. The French government’s premier space agency, which frequently collaborates with India’s ISRO, is known by which acronym?
- ESA
- NASA
- CNES
- JAXA
