[FPSPACE] After Chandrayaan 1, India says On to Mars!

[LARRY KLAES]

September 1, 2009
 
After Loss of Lunar Orbiter, India Looks to Mars Mission

 

Written by Nancy Atkinson

 






After giving up on re-establishing contact with the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair announced the space agency hopes to launch its first mission to Mars sometime between 2013 and 2015. 

 

Nair said the termination of Chandrayaan-1, although sad, is not a setback and India will move ahead with its plans for the Chandrayaan-2 mission to land an unmanned rover on the moon’s surface to prospect for chemicals, and in four to six years launch a robotic mission to Mars.


"We have given a call for proposal to different scientific communities," Nair told reporters. "Depending on the type of experiments they propose, we will be able to plan the mission. The mission is at conceptual stage and will be taken up after Chandrayaan-2."

 

Full article here:

 

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/01/after-loss-of-lunar-orbiter-india-looks-to-mars-mission/

 

 

 
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