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ISRO Aims For Mars Mission By 2013-2015
Panaji, India (PTI) Sep 01, 2009 India's mission to Mars will take place between 2013-2015, Indian Space Research Organisation chief G Madhavan Nair said on Monday. "We have given a call for proposal to different scientific communities. Depending on the type of experiments they propose, we will be able to plan the mission," he said. The mission is at conceptual stage and will be taken up after Chandrayaan-2, Nair said. "Once in two years you get an opportunity for the mission," Nair said. ISRO Chairman is in Goa to host the eighth international conference on low cost planetary missions. He said that like Chandrayaan-1, which had cost less than 100 million dollars, the mission on Mars will also be low cost space odyssey. On Saturday, ISRO's scientists and engineers, who had slogged over the country's first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 had lost radio contact with the spacecraft orbiting about 200 km above the moon's surface. Data from Chandrayaan-1's last orbit was transmitted until 12.25am on Saturday to the Indian Deep Space Network at Byalalu near Bangalore. Though Chandrayaan-1 was slated to be a two-year mission, ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair had said that nearly 95% of Chandrayaan's scientific goals had already been accomplished in less than a year.
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