Beijing:
The US space agency NASA has exchanged information of its existing Mars mission with its counterparts in China, India, the UAE and the European Space Agency to reduce the danger of a collision as their spacecraft had been also presently hovering the red planet, a media report stated on Wednesday.
The goal of exchanges was to reduce the danger of a collision, as their spacecraft are orbiting the red planet, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported, quoting a NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) statement as saying.
“To assure the safety of our respective missions, NASA is coordinating with the UAE, European Space Agency, Indian Space Research Organisation and the China National Space Administration, all of which have spacecraft in orbit around Mars, to exchange information on our respective Mars missions to ensure the safety of our respective spacecraft,” NASA’s statement stated.
“This limited exchange of information is consistent with customary good practices used to ensure effective communication among satellite operators and spacecraft safety in orbit,” the report stated.
ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan, spacecraft remained in Mars orbit due to the fact it entered there in 2014.
India is the initially Asian nation to effectively send a spacecraft to Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance has landed on Mars final month and its rover is presently exploring its surface, even though China’s Tianwen-1 consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, entered the parking lot of orbit about Mars on February 24 and anticipated to land there in the next handful of months.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) spacecraft, Hope, is also orbiting the Mars planet. There are two spacecraft from the European Space Agency in the Martian orbit, the report stated.
For data exchange cooperation with China NASA had sought approval from US Congress and spoke to CNSA, the US space agency confirmed on Monday, the Post report stated.
Previously the US, Russia, EU in addition to India have succeeded in sending spacecraft to Mars regarded as the most complicated space mission.