NEW DELHI — The naval variant of India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-Navy) went supersonic recently, reaching a speed of Mach 1.1. “It a great achievement, since the aircraft was plagued with several problems in-between,” says an official at the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the nodal agency for the development of the LCA.
NEW DELHI — India’s Mars orbiter spacecraft, launched last year, has traveled more than 340 million km (211 million mi.) and crossed the halfway point on its journey to the red planet, according to the country’s space agency.