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Mars journey will be 'huge step' for India: PM
Wednesday August 15, 2012 11:30:23 AM,
IANS
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New
Delhi: An Indian spaceship will go to Mars and
collect important scientific information, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh announced Wednesday.
"This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step for us in the area of
science and technology," the prime minister said in his
Independence Day speech from the Red Fort.
Manmohan Singh also congratulated Indian scientists and
technocrats for successfully testing the Agni V missile and for
launching the RISAT-I satellite in space this year.
The Mars Mission envisages launching an orbiter around the red
planet using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket during
November 2013.
The Mars orbiter will have a provision for carrying nearly 25 kg
of scientific payloads on-board.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO's) Mars project got a big
boost as the government made a budgetary allocation of Rs.125
crore this year for its launch.
ISRO has completed a significant amount of work on the planned
Mars Mission.
The tentative scientific objective for the Mars mission would be
to focus on life, climate, geology, origin, evolution and
sustainability of life on the planet.
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