JERUSALEM: India and Israel will sign agreements to deepen cooperation on the state-of-the-art technologies in the space sector during Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's visit here, a top Israeli official has said.Describing Indian space satellite launchers as "reliable", Israel Space Agency Director General Avi Blasberger has said that his country would look to send more satellites aboard Indian launchers in the future. Actually we have an agreement between Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ) and Israel Space Agency (ISA), a cooperation agreement, and these agreements that we are going to sign during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are implementation agreements which will be added to the main agreement," Israel Space Agency Director General Avi Blasberger told PTI. "The main agreement is a kind of an umbrella agreement that allows us to do any operation which we like. "We can use the launching capacity of India to launch Israeli satellites and we can do joint programmes," Blasberger said. "We have been working quite continuously since last December to explore the possibilities of cooperation.

Source: Economic Times July 03, 2017 14:03 UTC