On Dec. 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law the ratification of an intergovernmental agreement with Algeria focused on cooperation in the peaceful exploration and utilization of outer space, reported TASS.
The document establishes the organizational and legal framework for this collaboration on joint space activities, including astrophysical phenomena studies, human space operations and space biology and medicine. Russia’s Roscosmos and the Algerian Space Agency will be the primary executing bodies under this agreement.
The Algerian Space Agency (Agence Spatiale Algérienne) has flown five different satellites, and has signed bilateral cooperation agreements with Argentina, China, France and Ukraine.
