NEW DELHI — India’s space agency has a busy period coming up, with the next launch of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C23) bearing a clutch of foreign satellites slated by the end of June, and an experimental launch of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mk. 3) by the end of July. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) say both missions are currently at “different stages” of progress. The next two months will be “very hectic” for the space agency, they say.
NEW DELHI – India’s first mission to Mars is on track and should enter orbit in September, the country’s top scientist says. The unmanned “Maangalyaan” probe, launched last year, has “now completed 60 percent” of its journey, ISRO Chief K. Radhakrishnan says. “The mission is going well and will reach the orbit on Sept. 24, 2014,” he says.
