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India’s Next Mission to Mars Will Be an Orbiter Mission, Says ISRO Chief

On a day when Nasa's rover Perseverance landed on Mars to look for signs of past life on the Red Planet, chief of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K Sivan said India would also send a second Mars mission and this mission is likely to be an orbiter.

However, it is not yet known when this mission, named Mangalyaan-2, will be ready. Sivan said Mangalyaan-2 will be undertaken only after the launch of Chandrayaan-3, India's upcoming Moon mission.