After pressure from the House, NASA has decided that it will maintain cooperation with its Indian counterpart ISRO. Recently, he suspended the cooperation with India due to Orbital Debris (the debris located in the escrow). This debris was born on 27th March after anti-satellite testing by India.
NASA President James Bridenstein, who earlier had described India's test as terrible, wrote a letter to ISRO President Sivan on Thursday, saying, our cooperation under our partnership with you will remain intact.
"We will continue to work on things like NASA-ISRO Human Space Flight Working Group, Planetary Science Working Group, US-India Earth Science Working Group, and Heliophysics Working Group. "
Bridenstein told why he changed his decision. They said, "Based on the guidance from the White House, we want to work with you in the future." Earlier, he had written a letter to the ISRO president. Referring to this on Thursday, he said, "The activities are suspended under the NASA-ISRO Human Space Flight Working Group Program."
From a letter written on 4 April it appears that after the White House intervention, cooperation between the two organizations will remain intact. NASA chief criticized India's satellite piercing missile test at a town hall meeting because it created debris in space and could endanger the international space station.
Although Bridenstein has made it clear that the debris deposited in space is a serious matter for the US and it is the shared responsibility of all countries active in space. He said, "We will continue to monitor your wreck so that the security of our human internal missions, especially the international defense station, can be ensured."
Earlier on Thursday, the Pentagon had contradicted NASA that it stood on its predecessor's assessment that India's anti-satellite debris would burn itself in the air. US Secretary of State for Defense Patrick Shanahan rejected the threats from the rubble on March 28.
