India has launched an ambitious programme to use its array of geostationary satellites (G-sats) to monitor missile activities in an area of 6,000 km.

India's space agency is planning to have a total of five rocket launches in 2013 from its rocket launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from here. This will include a mission to Mars later this year.

Scientists at ISRO's Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre here are hopeful of finishing the work on the indigenous cryogenic engine by May 15 after its recent successful test at the high altitude test facility of the centre.

The fuelling of the second stage of the Indian rocket that would sling seven satellites into space has been completed and it is expected to lift off around 6 p.m. on Monday, an official of the Indian space agency said.

India plans to launch a satellite in October that will orbit Mars and collect data on the red planet, a spokesman for the Indian Space Research Organization said Thursday.

The launch of ISRO's 101st space mission, GSAT-10 satellite, has been a success. At 3400 kg, GSAT-10 is the heaviest Indian satellite that ISRO has built, said a press release.

The Indian Space Research Organization marked its 100th mission by successfully deploying into orbit a French Earth observation satellite and a Japanese micro-satellite, using its workhorse single-entry Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

Making history in its space Odyssey, India today successfully launched its 100th mission with its workhorse PSLV-C21 placing in orbit two foreign satellites in a flawless flight from the spaceport.

New Delhi may soon approve the ambitious Mars mission which is planned for launch in November 2013. The project is in the final stage of approval and studies relating to the mission have been completed by ISRO scientists.

The countdown to ship our communication satellite, GSAT-10, to the spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana has begun.

The SAGA system, India's most powerful supercomputer and holder of the 86th position on the Top 500 list, employs NVIDIA GPUs to improve the design and analysis of the delivery vehicles critical to the nation's space program.

ISRO is planning to develop a third launch pad at India's spaceport Sriharikota to launch over 60 missions over the next five years. ISRO's order book is full and it needs to augment it's launch capacity to cater to the growing demand.