Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair indicated on Monday that India planned to launch a mission to explore Mars. It was under the conceptual stage.
Mr. Nair was addressing the inaugural session of the 8th International Conference on “Low Cost Planetary Missions” here.
He said ISRO was poised to launch the Chandrayaan-2 mission to land on the Moon and conduct experiments in 2012-13. This would be followed by a manned expedition to the Moon in 2015 and plans to explore Mars.
The five-day conference, organised by ISRO in collaboration with the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and the Astronautical Society of India (ASI), was inaugurated by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. Goa Minister for Science and Technology Churchill Alemao was also present.
Speaking about low-cost planetary missions, Mr. Nair said India had set a trend in building low-cost satellites with Chandrayaan-1 being the best example. It cost below $100 million as compared to the nearly $500 million that were spent on similar expeditions by other developed countries.
Keywords: ISRO, Mars mission, Chandrayaan, Madhavan Nair
Comments:
That's fine Mr.Nair .
When will you launch a satellite that can give a correct weather report.
ours is a land of agriculture. Don't we need to help the farmers first ?!!!
~ Prem - Madurai ~
its a good plan to launch a satellite which keeps track on terrorists who cross indian boarder
Great proposal from ISRO and advanced wishes for its success. As prem suggested, we also need to develop weather satellites that focus exclusively for agriculture.
Mr Prem,
Weather prediction is not the purpose of a satellite.Satellite is only a tool.
It is the prediction model that is which needs to be improved.
It is a pity that Scientific establishments have come deep into public gaze, and the staff have to resort to public relation maneuvers. The recent moon mission and the indicated re-visits to moon and further to mars, point to the acute pressure on the scientific community to set goals that make grand headlines rather than focussing on immediate needs. The mineraology data collected from the moon mission will be in the data discs for atleast a few decades before coming to any sort of practical use. Reports of success (80-90%) only indicate that the scientists have gotten better at writing press releases unlike a couple of decades ago when the academics were content with discussions in seminar rooms.