India's successful launch of an American communication satellite is a very important and big day for the partnership between Washington and New Delhi and caps a series of achievements in 2025 in bilateral space cooperation. These remarks were made by Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Vinay Mohan Kwatra, underlining growing 'Atmanirbharta' in the sector.
"It is indeed a very important day today for India-U.S. partnership in the field of space,” Mr. Kwatra told PTI in an exclusive interview here.
"Big day. Big day for our space engineers, our space scientists. Big day for the achievement of Prime Minister's [Narendra Modi] Atmanirbharta objectives. Big day for India-U.S. cooperation. I think we couldn't have ended the year 2025, at least in this domain, in a better way and all set for more achievements, more milestones in the next year,” Mr. Kwatra said.
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