Former Indian President Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, acknowledged as the father of India’s missile technology, died July 27 after collapsing while delivering a lecture at a management institute.

NEW DELHI—India is pondering either revisiting Mars or the Moon, or mounting its first mission to Venus as its next interplanetary space probe

India plans to launch 28 foreign satellites by 2017, including nine belonging to the U.S.