INDIA will launch its first mission to Mars today, aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet, with a program designed to showcase its low-cost space technology. - A rocket carrying a 1.35-tonne unmanned probe will blast off from the Sriharikota spaceport off the southeast coast, beginning a 300-day journey to study the Martian atmosphere.
More than half of all Mars projects have failed, including China's in 2011 and Japan's in 2003. Only the United States, Russia and the European Union have successfully reached the planet.
- See more at: TheAustralian.com
INDIA will launch its first mission to Mars today, aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet, with a program designed to showcase its low-cost space technology. - See more at: TheAustralian.com
