ever imagined it to be. it's always the traffic. is the tip just to kind of step out? and the cities that have sprung up érfiund the aid iéléniél dran'déur' ' kinda. and india has found a niche in the wider world. half df'itfljfitfimrpefipl? its outsourcing. and the bosses of some of the biggest tech companies in the world are indian. of consumer technology. not that many people here can really afford the latest of very = let me tell you, it is reaching for the stars. [e 3313- ingrsgggssfig 9? 5mm? - they did it on their first attempt. on a shoestring budget. u- 1c“ u l; w‘ 7 77” ww 7 ,,,, a record 104 satellites on a single rocket. for doing things on thecheap= just the sort of place ymimighl; go if you wanted to, laughs. welcome to the earthbound hq of team indus, one of the handful of start—ups competing for the google lunar xprize, ' 2’ 2” " ' "’i— l”;’ ’ "ig if all gees well; guise-mes ~ , . sends back hd video and wins the prize. rahul narayan is the co—founder of teamjndusand hasheeil here since the start of the project, way back in 2010. yes, i gaagted i'rand figured’aut iiii’; j." " ’ absolutely. yes. it said there had been 85 attempts and i think every second attempt failed to the moom. six years later, there are about 100 people working very hard here and it = certainly looks like they know their space stuff. étéflfléfg in “gem-tows even the toilets are appropriately labelled. 31; megs; 9-411 1157555 compenysheuldhem- you could go to an expensive lab and try to buy lunar simulantr we just went to a stone quarry and asked them to give us the milling output. se thet meens it wig that's correct. that's one part that will get into eeerg eerferet‘reir jig}. lie? fiéflfifiél §§§§§ §§§fiil§§ ' féififiifi efiém ffififififiéfii ,, ,, ,, ,, of what they're doing here. we're making sure we do everything right. we'rejust not making itfancy. , ,, ,, f we will make it frugal, specific to the mission, but there's absolutely no corners that we're cutting. and, to look at it from a more philosophical way, we have one shot to win this. we don't have a flight spare, so if one blows up we can go and fly the other, we have to get this right. team indus is one of five start—ups from around the world that have secured launch contracts for their rovers. while they can't say for sure, they think they'll launch before any otherrteam and, sogerhags be?! some of their spare launch weight to a competitor rover. japan's team hakuto will be onboard too. how is that going to work? it's whoever touches down first and whoever has the fastest rover? it's going to be crazy! in a manner of speaking, yes. so what do you expect to happen? so it's a race, it will be a very interesting race, and once we touch down and both the rovers are deployed, let's see which one makes 500m first. i would put a laser gun on yours. all of that assumes of course that the rovers make it to the moon in the first place. space exploration is a risky business and when it goes wrong it tends to go really wrong. spent and there's certainly a lot riding on getting things right. you mitigate the big pieces and then the you start mitigating the smaller risks and, at the end of the day, absolutely, one small wrong piece of code that made it through could; kill the entire mission. there is a word here in india that i think describes team indus's low—cost, make do approach. jugaad. gig; 5.715 ee. 4l}. eff—eh? . 77 . fl ,,. .. . ..

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