Mangalyaan 2
| Mission type | Mars orbiter, lander, and rover |
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| Operator | ISRO |
| Mission duration | Planned: 1 year |
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| Bus | I-3K |
| Manufacturer | ISAC |
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| Launch date | 2021-2022 |
| Rocket | GSLV III |
| Launch site | Satish Dhawan |
| Contractor | ISRO |
| Mars orbiter | |
| Orbit parameters | |
| Periareon | 200 km (120 mi) |
| Apoareon | 2,000 km (1,200 mi) |
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Indian missions to Mars
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Mangalyaan 2 ("Mars-craft", from Sanskrit: मंगल mangala, "Mars" and यान yāna, "craft, vehicle") is India's second interplanetary mission planned for launch to Mars by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the 2021-2022 time frame. It will consist of an orbiter, and may include a lander and a rover.
After ISRO's successful launch and orbit of Mars by its first probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), ISRO announced the second mission on 28 October 2014 at the Engineers Conclave 2014 conference held in Bangalore. The agency hopes to have its heavy lift launcher GSLV III fully operational by 2016 or 2017. It plans to use the GSLV III for the Chandrayaan 2 mission to the Moon in 2018, and later use it to launch Mangalyaan 2.
In January 2016, India and France signed a letter of intent for ISRO and CNES to jointly build Mangalyaan 2 by 2020. The Indian government gave Mangalyaan 2 the green light in its 2017 budget proposal, and ISRO is considering whether the best path is to conduct an orbiter/lander/rover mission or to opt for only an orbiter with more sophisticated instruments than those flown on Mangalyaan 1. Regardless, the ISRO promises "a major science upgrade" for the mission.
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