The Megha Tropiques satellite will be jointly launched in 2009 by India and France, but other countries will also be allowed to access data from it. The satellite will be used to understand climate change and the tropical weather phenomena including monsoons. Officials inform that this Indo-French satellite will carry four payloads - a microwave radiometer, a humidity sounder, a radiation measuring instrument and a radio occultation sounder for atmospheric studies. Madhavan Nair, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), said that they are seeing if Brazil or those from Africa require the data of the Megha Tropiques satellite.

He said this is basically why it was vital of them to sign up the data distribution policy agreement. The ISRO Chairman explained the data received from the satellite will help in the understanding of tropical weather phenomena, including monsoons. France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) is working on tandem with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for this Megha Tropiques satellite mission. Speaking on this project, Yannick d’Escatha, the Chairman of CNES, said, ‘We have decided to work together on applications of space that are most useful for humankind. Megha Tropiques is entirely dedicated to that.’