The case for enhanced India-Canada space cooperation

He is the managing editor of Space Regulations Library Series, a member of the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Air and Space Law and of the Utrecht Series in Air and Space Law, a member of the Board of the International Institute of the Space Law International Astronautical Federation, and the Chairman of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of [...] In addition to the highly qualified graduates from India’s world-class centrally funded Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institutes of Technology, the space specialists from the IIST will meet the growing human resources needs of the Indian space program. [...] In essence, India’s space policy and activities have been and are guided by its efforts to use space to extend socio-economic benefits to society, to attain and maintain independent access to space and self-sufficiency in space capabilities, to rely on international cooperation and to promote international business in the space sector. [...] To serve the specific domestic needs of a country with such a vast territory, abundant natural resources, and a thin population, the Government of Canada began using space technology almost from the beginning of the space age, and thus devised a unique space program and policy. [...] The main objectives of the CSA, as specified in the 1990 Canadian Space Agency Act, are “to promote the peaceful use and development of space, to advance the knowledge of space through science and to ensure that space science and technology provide social and economic benefits for Canadians.” The Agency reports to the Canadian Parliament through the Minister of Industry.