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Re:India to launch Mars mission this year: President by rikacomet on Thursday February 21, 2013 @07:02AM (#5256897)
Who said, ISRO's missions are completely cut off from the world, if you search a little, there is a lot more of cooperation in space fields today, than any other field.
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Re:India to launch Mars mission this year: President by mturmon on Thursday February 21, 2013 @12:22PM (#5258638)
This is true. Here's the Chandrayaan-1 (earlier lunar satellite) payload:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1#Payload

It contained significant instruments from NASA and ESA. The instrument that discovered polar water was M3:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/details.php?id=5923

I believe it was given a free ride by ISRO, but the instrument itself was paid for by NASA.

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