NEW DELHI — India will test a 5,000-km-range (3,100-mi.) intercontinental ballistic missile by the end of this year, according to the chief of the country’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). “[The] Agni-V missile [should] be ready for a test, probably in December,” says V.K. Saraswat.

NEW DELHI — A failure analysis committee has found no design problems with India’s Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), despite two successive failures in 2010. “We had the opportunity to look at all aspects of [the] GSLV, at not only the missions that failed but also the successful missions,” says G. Madhavan Nair, the chairman of the failure analysis committee and a former chief of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). “We could not find any design deficiency with respect to the GSLV.”

NEW DELHI — India will launch a dozen foreign satellites in the next couple of years, according to the chief of the country’s space agency. “We have [firm orders] today for about 12 satellites, which are scheduled to be launched in the coming two years,” Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan says. The satellites are mainly Canadian, German and Indonesian, including an 800-kg (1,760-lb.) spacecraft environment-monitoring satellite from DLF Germany.