Mission Mars between 2013 to 2015: ISRO chief

31 August,2009 02:49 PM IST |   |  IANS

India will undertake Mission Mars between 2013 to 2015, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair said here on Monday.


India will undertake Mission Mars between 2013 to 2015, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair said here on Monday.

The space agency had called for proposals from various scientific communities in preparation for Mission Mars, Nair told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on low cost planetary missions at a five-star hotel in the city.

"The project would be taken up after Chandrayan II," he said, adding that Mission Mars would be following the low cost concept of operation.

He said Mission Mars was still in a conceptual stage.

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Mission Mars 2013 to 2015 ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair