NEW DELHI — India soon will have a second satellite launch vehicle assembly unit at the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota (SDSC-SHAR) in southern India at an estimated cost of $3.64 billion rupees ($57 million).
NEW DELHI — India on Sept. 11 unveiled its Mars Orbiter, which is due to launch later this year to search the red planet’s atmosphere for methane, considered a “precursor chemical” for life. “The Mars orbiter is in the final stages of testing for launch between Oct. 21 and Nov. 19 on board a rocket with five scientific instruments to conduct various experiments after a nine-month voyage to the red planet,” says S.K. Shivkumar, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) satellite center director.
