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Shoe-String budget for Moon and Mars expedition

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How does India keep the cost down to reach the Moon and Mars? Last year India became the first country in the world to land near the previously-unexplored lunar south pole. India’s space projects have only an approval of £2.1bn (Rs 227bn). Their next historic mission to the Moon and sending an orbiter to Venus, and build the  first phase of India’s maiden space station and development of a new reusable heavy-lifting rocket to launch satellites. Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Moon, Mars and Solar mission costs only $74m on the Mars orbiter Mangalyaan and $75m on Chandrayaan-3. Nasa’s Maven … Continue reading Shoe-String budget for Moon and Mars expedition

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Success emerging from failure

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Associate project director of Chandrayaan Kalpana Kalahasti, an engineer who ensured Chandrayaan -3’s triumphant touchdown on Moon  and helped India to reach the Moon. She said after a few minutes India’s space agency safely landed its first probe on the Moon on 23 August,  “We have achieved our goal flawlessly, this will remain the most memorable and happiest moment for all of us”. Only the Soviet Union, the United States and China have also achieved this feat. Chandrayaan-3 carried lifted off on 14 July, as India’s previous attempt to reach the lunar surface, the Chandrayaan-2 mission in 2019, ended in … Continue reading Success emerging from failure