Tata Motors launches 'World Truck'

Mumbai, May 29: Tata Motors, India's leading manufacturer of both heavy and light automobiles, launched a new line of trucks, named 'World Truck' here on Thursday, May 28.


The launching of the new series of trucks also marked the company's objective to bring international standard top quality trucks in the Indian market. The range, which comprises of multi-axle trucks, tractor-trailers, mixers and special application vehicles, is a bid by Tata Motors to prove itself as a global auto major.


"There will be various offerings coming from this. There will be tractors for taking higher levels of movements across high speed tracks. There will be tippers which will be meeting construction and mining requirements. So, it is an entire range of products which will be coming through this," said P M Telang, Executive Director, Tata Motors.

The company however has not mentioned the price levels of its latest models and the varied versions.

"It's about changing the way trucking happens in India and bringing it closer to the sort of levels that you see in more developed countries and rest of the world. So, it is a range of models and when you talk of range of models, there is no one price we can talk about," said R Ramakrishnan, Head of Marketing, Medium and Heavy Trucks, Tata Motors.

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China set to launch its first Mars probe

New Delhi, May 29: China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, is expected to be launched later in '09 according to an official of the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST).


The probe had passed test of the research phase, Zhang Weiqiang, deputy secretary of SAST Committee of the Communist Party of China, told the third Shanghai International Aerospace Technology and Equipment Exhibition.


Yinghuo-1 will be launched by a Russian carrier rocket, accompanied by the Russian aerocraft Phobos-Grunt.

"The Russian aerocraft is making a sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars," Zhang said.

According to Zhang, Yinghuo-1 would go into Mars orbit in 2010 after a 10-month, 380-million-kilometer journey, Zhang said.

But, unlike the Russian craft, Yinghuo-1 won't land but would only orbit and observe, he added.

The Chinese probe is 75 centimeters long, 75 cm wide and 60 cm high. It weighs 115 kilograms and was designed for a two-year life, Zhang said.

"Yinghuo" means light from firefly in Chinese.

"Yinghuo-1 is expected to discover why water disappeared from Mars and explain other environmental changes of the planet," Zhang said.

The project is China's third major space exploration plan after the manned space project and the moon exploration program.

"It was also the first time that China would explore another planet," Zhang said.

ANI

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