The India-United States Conference on Space Science, Applications, and Commerce: Strengthening and Expanding Cooperation convened in Bangalore, India, 21-25 June 2004. The conference was attended by over 600 delegates representing the scientific, engineering, and business space communities, in addition to senior government and space agency officials from India and the United States. Download the documents below for more information about the results of the conference and recommendations for future activities between the two countries in the areas of space science, space commerce, satellite communication, satelllite navigation, earth observation, disaster management, and space education.

India-U.S. Vision Statement (1.37 Mb PDF document)
In the closing plenary of the conference, a vision statement was adopted that called for strengthening and enhancing cooperation and commerce in space between the two nations and identified a series of recommendations.

Conference Final Report (1.47Mb kb Word document)
This report contains text from he plenary addresses and Symposia reports from the conference.

Message from David C. Mulford, U.S. Ambassador to India (64 kb Word doucment)

Abstracts from the Technical Symposia

Space Science (814 kb PDF document)
Satellite Communication (656 kb PDF document)
Satellite Navigation (368 kb PDF document)
Earth Observation (1 Mb PDF document)
Natural Hazards and Disaster Management (236 kb PDF document)
Space Education (368 kb PDF document)

More information about the conference is available on the following web sites:

Indian Space Research Organisation
U.S Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Space & Advanced Technology
U.S. Embassy, New Delhi, India
U.S. Consulate, Chennai, India

For more information, please email IndoUS2004@aiaa.org.