AKIPRESS.COM - France will partner India in its next Mars mission, which the Indian Space Research Organiяation plans to launch in 2018.

French space agency, CNES on Monday signed a letter of intent with the ISRO for French participation in the next Mars mission. The details of the French proposal remains unknown.

A joint statement issued in the wake of the summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande says, both leaders “welcomed the announcement of collaboration through the participation of the Centкe National d’études spatiales (CNES) in future space and planetary exploration missions of the ISRO.”