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KOLKATA: In a year when India should have actually fired a second rocket to the moon, after Chandrayaan-1, space scientists will instead send a mission to Mars in November that, if successful, will propel India into the elite club of four—the US, Russia, Europe and Japan. The announcement was made on Friday by J N Goswami, director of the Physical ... Read More »

New Delhi:  As Space Commission, the country’s top policymaking body on space affairs, met against the backdrop of the Antrix-Devas spectrum controversy, a surprise announcement was made. The commission has approved the proposal for a joint moon mission between ISRO and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a premier American agency. The mission called Moonrise is slated for launch in 2016 and now ... Read More »