India's Mars mission Mangalyaan will be absolutely indigenous, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) former chairman Prof U. R. Rao said.

Prof Rao, who is actively involved in the Rs 450-crore Mangalyaan project, said that the project would not have any foreign involvement. He added that space craft would be equipped with cameras and sensors to record findings and send data continuously back to Earth.

Speaking about the country's Mars mission, Prof Rao said, "There won't be any foreign involvement in Mangalyaan. The Rs450-crore project will carry 24 kg of payload experiments - cameras and sensors to record fluorescent spectra, methane emissions, atmosphere studies etc."

The spacecraft will revolve around Mars with farthest and nearest orbital points of around 80,000 km and 500 km respectively.

The Mangalyaan, which is scheduled to take off next November, will consume around eight months to reach the Red Planet. However, it does not take off as scheduled; scientists will have to wait at least until 2016 to get the required favourable distance from Mars again.

Meanwhile, the ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) ready to carrying French and Japanese satellites to space. The count down for the Indian space agency's 100th mission has already started at the Sriharikota satellite launch centre in Andhra Pradesh, and the rocket carrying the satellites will blast off at 9.51 a. m. on Sunday.