Abstract
Abstract. India’s cooperation with International Space faring nations has a long legacy of cooperation. As India moves towards realizing its space aspirations, its co-operation for outreach and capacity building with international partners will increase. This cooperation is reflected in all spheres of national development, security and space exploration of both the primary as well as partnering nation. Policy considerations and directives acts as a key to define the future course of action for such cooperation. The paper attempts to present parameters for evaluating policy options of India’s international space cooperation with an example of India-Israel space cooperation. The paper uses fuzzy logic modeling for scoring parametric valuation for pursuing cooperation. This valuation can assist in making feasibility analysis for a collaborative mission or project with a partnering nation. These parameters include the erstwhile and ongoing collaborations and cooperation, economics of the collaborative project, security considerations, technical considerations & space ambitions. The output delivers aggregated value for ‘checks and balance’ derivatives for informed decision making.
Highlights
Space technology and space based data/services have become relevant for studying spatial and temporal pattern of resources in the context of burdening demand of growing populations
This paper develops a Fuzzy Logic model for understanding international cooperation on space technology and its indication towards achieving success using these parameters (Fig. 1)
Fuzzy modeling for assessing space cooperation is a novel approach, which has the potential to assess different interplaying parameters individually and as a whole for higher and effective decision making policy
Summary
Space technology and space based data/services have become relevant for studying spatial and temporal pattern of resources in the context of burdening demand of growing populations. To enhance co-existence and better management of resources, countries are collaborating for space technology, space infrastructure sharing, space data distribution and utilization for societal benefits. International collaborations in space technologies are focused on scientific and technological factors along with political, economic and cultural aspects, which eventually lead to strategic long standing partnership or relation. Though literature exists about the cooperation and policies describing how successful they have been, very few indicate any logical quantification in this regard. This paper identifies inter-relationship of prominent Indian space collaborations with International communities along with their respective components and their relevance (section-2). An attempt is made to indicate a logical qualitative analysis (in section-3) onwards assessing suitability of International space cooperation with an example
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