Former ISRO chairman Kiran Kumar was speaking at the seventh annual convocation of the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG). (Express File Photo)
Companies that were primarily vendors to Isro have started warming up to the idea of investing in technology and making bigger bets in the space sector, especially after the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission
Pragyan is currently in sleep mode on the lunar surface and could wake up if its electronic circuits have not been damaged due to the extreme weather. The temperature on the lunar surface drops to nearly -200 degree Celsius.