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Science satellite next year

Mumbai: India’s first science satellite, Astrosat, is set to be launched next year, the former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, Madhavan Nair, said on Saturday. One more satellite, ‘Aditya,’ to study the Sun’s coronal mass ejection will be launched in two years and the science mission to Mars by 2013, Mr. Nair said.

He was addressing scientists from India and abroad and students at the finale of the Homi Bhabha birth centenary celebrations on Saturday. — PTI

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