ISRO’s GSAT-11 satellite. Photo: ISRO

French space agency CNES, in a statement released to the medias aid that an agreement its president Jean-Yves Le Gall and ISRO Chairman K Sivan had signed earlier has no been made official, and that work to start development and production of a constellation of satellites will begin. India and France also discussed possibilities of the latter training future flight surgeons who’ll cater to India’s astronauts.

“On the occasion of the state visit to France of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an agreement signed by CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Sivan K, Chairman, ISRO, was officially announced to start development and production of a constellation of satellite on which studies have been underway since French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India in March 2018,” the statement read.

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