NEW DELHI: India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was scheduled to begin late next year.
The project would mark another step in the country’s ambitious space programme, which placed a probe on the moon three years ago and envisages its first manned mission in 2016.
“Our spaceship will go near Mars and collect important scientific information,” Singh said in his annual
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