NEW DELHI (NNN-Bernama) -- India is to launch at least five satellites this year, Xinhua news agency reported.
"Three satellites namely Spot-6, a French satellite and a small Japanese communication satellite will be launched next month via Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket. The other two will be launched later this year," said P.S. Veeraraghavan, director of state-owned Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
The French satellite will be brought into India soon while the Japanese satellite is already in the southern spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the official said.
The two launches will take the space agency's total tally of ferrying foreign satellites to 29.
India had last week approved a mission to Mars. -- NNN-BERNAMA
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