India’s Mars Mission Reaches Halfway Point

NEW DELHI — India’s Mars orbiter spacecraft, launched last year, has traveled more than 340 million km (211 million mi.) and crossed the halfway point on its journey to the red planet, according to the country’s space agency. The spacecraft, traveling at an average speed of about 27 km/sec. (17 mi...

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