Monday, August 31, 2009

Mission to Mars to be between 2013-2015

P
anaji, Aug 31 (PTI) India's mission to Mars will take place between 2013-2015, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair said Monday

"We have given a call for proposal to different scientific communities. Depending on the type of experiments they propose, we will be able to plan the mission," he told PTI

The mission is at conceptual stage and will be taken up after Chandrayaan-2, Nair said

"Once in two years you get an opportunity for the mission," Nair said

ISRO Chairman is in Goa to host the eighth international conference on low cost planetary missions

He said that like Chandrayaan-1, which had cost less than 100 million dollars, the mission on Mars will also be low cost space odyssey.

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