After the success of Mars Mission, Mangalyaan, ISRO is planning to launch its second mission to Mars to explore deep the red planet with a lander and a rover, based on the findings of the first mission, in 2018.
According to ISRO satellite centre Director S Shiva Kumar, ISRO would launch its Mars Mission-2 in 2018. He said, “We plan to launch a second mission to Mars in 2018, probably with a lander and rover, to conduct more experiments for which we have to develop new technologies.”
ISRO entered select league of countries which has explored Mars recently, by putting its Mangalyaan into Mars. ISRO successfully inserted the spacecraft MOM on September 24 in the Martian orbit with five scientific instruments to search for life-sustaining elements on the planet.Shivakumar also said ISRO would launch Mars Mission-2 only after Chandrayaan -2 in 2016.