Isro: Isro discusses Moon, Sun data sharing with Japan | India News

BENGALURU: Isro chairman S Somanath and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan director-general Saku Tsuneka on Tuesday discussed multiple possibilities of collaboration as part of Indo-Japanese bilateral relations and partnership through QUAD — Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the US.

Tsuneka, also the vice-chair of Japan’s cabinet committee on National Space Policy (CNSP) met with Somanath at the Isro headquarters here.
“India-Japan space science co-operation at national level, space agency level (Isro and JAXA) and institutes-level were discussed with specific reference to the proposed joint Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission,” Isro said.

Potential cooperation opportunities in: Utilisation of data from Adithya L1 and Chandrayaan-3 missions; development of a smaller lander for lunar exploration and joint activities under QUAD space working group were also discussed.
While remote sensing data from Chandrayaan-2 has already been used by the scientific community from across the world, Chandrayaan-3 will give data from in-situ experiments, provided Isro manages a soft-landing. The space agency has worked on achieving this over the past four years and is confident of a successful landing.
As of Wednesday morning, Chandrayaan-3 is in an elliptical orbit around Moon with an Apolune of 4,313km. Later in the day, Isro will attempt to lower the same further.
Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission, will carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of Sun (the corona) using electromagnetic and particle and magnetic field detectors.