NEW DELHI —India’s state-run space agency has proposed launching 10 satellites annually starting this year, setting an ambitious goal toward expanding the country’s space exploration program. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is currently launching four or five satellites every year. Most of them are for domestic use. The “idea is to develop our space program” with the annual launching of at least 10 satellites, says S.K. Shivakumar, director of the ISRO Satellite Center in Bengaluru in south India.

India’s state-run space agency has proposed launching 10 satellites annually starting this year, setting an ambitious goal toward expanding the country’s space exploration program.

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