Engineer reach on Moon

Space Engineering that India has been
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doing
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um after the failure in 2019 it was
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really an important attempt by India to
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position itself uh remember it's just
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been four years that three years that
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India has opened up the space industry
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for private uh players here because the
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government wants to make the space
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economy a larger portion and and expand
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it and we've already seen the startups
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coming into this space double in number
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in just three years time and that is the
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kind of Interest that's coming in and
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when we were talking to uh you know
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enthusiasts people especially even young
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you know audiences who are here to watch
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the live screening they were all talking
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about the prospects this builds for
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India uh to grow in the space economy uh
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to build on from here and also uh build
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more jobs around the space sector for
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youth coming in so on a lot of accounts
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this is a historic moment for India as
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well as for the world and India's
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contribution into the space research
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yeah it's a huge achievement Landing in
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this part of the Moon the South near the
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South uh pole because it's so much
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harder to land there than near the
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equator as it's been done before but
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it's not over is it people are still
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watching because the landing has taken
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place the next step is the Rover rolling
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out of the land there and on its Wheels
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then going out on a little explore
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that's what's coming up next
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foreign
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Lander and the Rover are going to spend
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one lunar day which is equal to 14 Earth
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days on the moon's South Pole uh
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collecting uh you know data from uh from
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the from the surface collecting uh
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evidence looking at the craters looking
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at the moon Quakes uh gathering
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information and most importantly looking
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for water on the lunar surface
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especially on the South Pole which is
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considered by scientists as one of the
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most valuable assets on the moon because
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that scientists say will pave the way

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you had an Israeli uh firm that was a a
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undertaking a similar Mission Again
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crash landed um so these are these just
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goes to show that lunar missions are
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still very complicated very complex
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Mission uh and uh challenging so uh if
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you get it right that's fantastic it's
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it's hugely challenging and and
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delighted as well so many people will be
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delighted of the success so far I just
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want to talk to you about the cost
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because of course it's a lot of money
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all these things are but actually
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relatively speaking India has not spent
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a great deal of money on this is that
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significant
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yeah that is absolutely significant but
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I think we also so uh and the the cost
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for the children too was about close to
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about 150 million and if you were to
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compare with other similar missions that
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are undertaken India's uh India's
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missions have always been very very cost
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effective one-fifth or one tenth of
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other such missions but India's missions
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are also at this point of time more of a
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technology demonstrator and uh not a
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large scientific mission that many of
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the other Advanced space players may be
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doing nevertheless India's attempt is at
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not duplicating what replicating what
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others have done but complementing to
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what others have done so in a sense we
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are not Landing weed India decided to
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land to do a soft landing on the
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southern pole of the Moon again is a
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decision that is taken by uh because we
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want to expand the humanities
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understanding of the lunar surface uh in
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terms of the study of the Rocks study of
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the chemicals chemical components the
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element and elements in in the Illinois
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surface and of course the water ice on
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the on the moon I think that's been an
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uh that's been an area of uh curiosity
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uh to a large number of a large number
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of folks in the scientific Community
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across the world not just to the uh
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Indian scientific Community or the ISRO
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um so I think these are uh things that
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there for us a credible space Power in
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that sense
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thank you very much for coming on the
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program thank you
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thank you thank you I'll just give you a
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heads up about exactly what does happen
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next I was talking about that Roe verb
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smaller vehicle which is inside the
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aircraft that landed uh that once the
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dust has settled I think quite literally
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around the landing site a couple of
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hours breathing space then they're going
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to try and deploy that Rover across the
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moon's surface as and when that happens
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of course we will bring that to you