NEW DELHI: France may send its scientific instruments on board India’s missions to Mars and Venus , French envoy to India Alexandre Ziegler said on Monday.

He said France and India are cooperating on the Gaganyaan project, India’s human spaceflight mission, especially in the area of space medicine .

“This is in line with the India-France joint vision for space cooperation signed in March 2018,” he said while delivering the inaugural address at the ORF’s Kalpana Chawla Space Dialogue. Under this, the two countries also resolved to work on interplanetary missions to Mars and Venus.

The two countries are also working on building a constellation of satellites for maritime surveillance in the Indian Ocean .

