President Joe Biden speaks throughout a information convention with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the East Room of the White House, on June 22, 2023, in Washington.
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India and the U.S. are collaborating to send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station in 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden mentioned In Washington on Thursday after a gathering with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Addressing the media after bilateral talks with PM Modi, President Biden mentioned India and the U.S. had been collaborating in practically each human endeavour in delivering progress throughout the board.
“From designing new ways to diagnosing and treating new illnesses like cancer and diabetes to collaboration on human space flight, including on sending an Indian astronaut to the international space station in 2024…,” President Biden mentioned with PM Modi by his aspect.
PM Modi additionally mentioned that India has determined to signal the Artemis Accords and brought an incredible leap ahead.
“We have decided to join the Artemis Accords. We have taken a giant leap in our space cooperation. In short, I would say even the sky is not the limit for cooperation with the U.S.,” PM Modi mentioned.
Grounded in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST), the Artemis Accords are a non-binding set of rules designed to information civil area exploration and use in the twenty first century. It is an American-led effort to return people to the moon by 2025, with the last word purpose of increasing area exploration to Mars and past.
India is planning to send its maiden human area flight – Gaganyaan – right into a low earth orbit by the tip of 2024 or early 2025.
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If an Indian astronaut travels to the worldwide area station, it might be earlier than the Gaganyaan challenge.
Earlier, a senior White House official mentioned that NASA and the ISRO had been creating a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation this 12 months.
On semiconductors, U.S. corporations are partnering with India to construct a semiconductor ecosystem that promotes provide chain diversification.
Micron Technology with assist from the Indian National Semiconductor Mission introduced an funding of greater than $800 million that along with further monetary assist from Indian authorities will quantity to a $2.75 billion semiconductor meeting and check facility in India.
In addition, US Applied Materials introduced the brand new semiconductor centre for commercialisation and innovation in India and Lamb Research, one other semiconductor manufacturing gear firm goes to announce a coaching programme for 60,000 Indian engineers by means of its semi-verse answer to speed up India’s semiconductor workforce improvement targets.
On essential minerals and mineral safety, the United States will announce its assist for India changing into a member of the Mineral Security Partnership which is led by the US State Department and strengthens essential minerals provide chain and ensures that our respective markets are effectively provided with important essential minerals which might be wanted for local weather, financial and strategic know-how targets, the official mentioned.
On superior computing, synthetic intelligence and quantum data science, India and the United States have first established a joint Indo-US quantum coordination mechanism that may facilitate extra collaboration between our industries, academia, and authorities, mentioned the official.
They have additionally signed a brand new implementation association on synthetic intelligence superior wi-fi and quantum applied sciences. The US on an Economic Development Consortium is now welcoming into its membership, Indian Quantum universities and entities as effectively.
In superior telecommunications, the 2 international locations are working collectively on 5G and 6G applied sciences, together with Open Radio Access Network (RAN) methods.
Here we’ll be saying partnerships on open ran, area trials and rollouts, together with scale deployments in each international locations with operators and distributors of each markets. This will contain backing from the US International Development Finance, for cooperation and to promote the deployments in India, the official mentioned.
India’s 5G and 6G and the US Next G alliance shall be main a brand new public-private Cooperation discussion board as effectively. The US can even be welcoming Indian participation in the US rip and substitute programme that removes telecommunications gear made by untrusted distributors.
On people-to-people ties and better training, leveraging the big expertise, significantly in STEM (science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic) fields in each international locations and popping out of a process drive. It could be chaired by the Association of American Universities and counterparts on the Indian Institute of Technologies would love to welcome the launch for the college community with Indo US world challenges to federal Spark, new analysis partnerships and exchanges in fields together with agriculture, vitality and well being, mentioned the official.
