India kicked off its 65th year of independence this week by unveiling ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars by the end of next year. Standing beneath the looming, 17th century Red Fort in New ...
India is now a major player in space science after putting a craft in orbit around Mars at the first attempt earlier this year. Pallava Bagla talks to K Radhakrishnan, chair of the Indian Space ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that India was marching ahead with renewed confidence in the field of space exploration and its astronauts' footprints will be on the Moon. Mars and ...
NEW DELHI — A day after an engine anomaly slowed its progress, India’s Mars Orbiter successfully raised its orbit to an apogee above 118,000 km (73,000 mi.) on Nov. 12. The country’s first Mars ...
BENGALURU—India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, has completed 1,000 Earth days in its orbit, well beyond its six-month mission life, a senior space scientist says. A senior ...