but it hasn't had as much luck in taking over the world of consumer technology. after all, how many indian tech brands can you name? the truth is that although there is a middle class of consumers here willing to buy brands it's not actually that big or that rich. we're here to see how india is preparing for its future and, let me tell you, it is reaching for the stars. in 2013, india became the fourth spacefaring nation to launch a probe into orbit around mars and, unlike those who came before them, they did it on their first attempt. the indian space research organisation, isro, has been gaining a reputation for doing tons of successful space stuff on a shoestring budget. their mars mission came in atjust $74 million, that's less than it cost to make the film gravity. and, in february this year, they made history again by launching a record 104 satellites on a single rocket. it could just be that india has created the perfect combination of big brains with big space experience, but a mentality for doing things on the cheap. just the sort of place you might go if you wanted to, say, land a robot on the moon for the space equivalent of small change. how confident are you that this will work? laughs welcome to the earthbound hq of team indus, one of the handful of start—ups competing for the google lunar xprize, that's $20 million for the first commercial company to land a rover on the moon. december, 2017, blast off. the team indus space craft goes into two days of earth orbit and then, boom, 11.5 days to the moon. 12 days of spiralling down to the surface and, if all goes well, out comes the rover, travels half a kilometre, sends back hd video and wins the prize. what could possibly go wrong? rahul narayan is the co—founder of team indus and has been here since the start of the project, way back in 2010. and at that point you had no idea how you would acheive it? yes, i googled and figured out what wikipedia had to say about landing on the mood. you did an internet search on how to land on the moon? absolutely. laughs did it have any useful information? yes. it said there had been 85 attempts and i think every second attempt failed to the moon. six years later, there are about 100 people working very hard here and it certainly looks like they know their space stuff. star wars in particular. even the toilets are appropriately labelled. and they've built themselves all the things that a serious space company should have, like a mission control room, a model lander that makes smoke and a simulated lunar surface complete with a rover to go in it. just like national space agencies, testing every component and simulating every stage of the mission is a huge part of what they're doing here. we're making sure we do everything right. we're just not making it fancy. we're going to 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 other team and so perhaps be the first team to land and win! well, that's except for the fact that to save costs they've had to sell some of their spare launch weight to a competitor rover. japan's team hakuto will onboard too. you're both going to get to the moon at the same time. yes. how's 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's going to 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 so 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. six years, hundreds of thousands of hours of effort and millions spent. 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. i've come to the centre of mumbai, to dharavi. asia's second largest slum. here, in its tiny alleyways, jugaad is all around, as a desperately poor population reuses as much as is physically possible. built by workers who flocked to the city over hundreds of years, some of the houses here date back to the 1840s. up ahead, there is a pile of shredded denim which they use for fuel. they burn it to fuel the kilns, just like they burn a lot of stuff for fuel here. and there is smoke everywhere here. you can really tell the air quality is very poor. you just have to take a few lung fulls and it starts to burn the back of your throat, it makes your eyes sting. the smoke is a necessary evil for the people of dharavi. like most of the developing world, pollution has been the price india is paying for a booming economy. the smog that gives mumbai its spectacular sunsets has also made it the fifth most polluted mega city in the world. and when the sun disappears before it hits the horizon, you can well believe it. in november, 2016, the indian government declared the air pollution in delhi a national emergency, with harmful pollutants more than 16 times the safe limit. and it's notjust caused by all of the traffic. so, where does it come from? i was surprised to find out a lot of it comes from diesel generators. see, the electricity in india isn't very reliable, but plenty of businesses need guaranteed power, so they have there own individual generators that fire up whenever the electricity goes down and that means there are loads of exhaust pipes like this all over the city, which regularly belch out all kinds of unpleasant stuff. hello. here in bangalore, we've come across a small project to capture the soot and turn it into art. so what we have built is a retrofit device that attaches to the exhaust pipe of the chimneys and this can be attached to pretty much any exhaust pipe, irrespective of what is the age or type of engine you are running, and it captures practically whatever matter comes out of it. once you capture matter that is substantially carbon, which is like the basis of everything that exists in the world, at present we recycle it into inks, which we believe is something used by practically everybody on the planet. the headquarters of graviky labs is a mix of art studio and mad laboratory, the perfect combination, if you ask me! their so—called air ink does have a few restrictions. it will only ever come in black and at the moment it's not good enough quality to be used in printers. graviky is giving it to artists, who are finding their own uses for it. painting and screenprinting, for example, for use on clothes and bags. and while the ink may only have limited uses at present, nikhil insists it is still better to put the carbon to good use rather than just collect it and dump it. there are a lot of technologies that have captured pollution in one way or the other, but if you don't recycle it you are actually leaving it for the future generations. i'm afraid that's all we have time for in the shortcut of click. the full—length version is available for you on iplayer right now and there's loads of extra photos from our trip to india on twitter. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. good evening. we've been watching a weak weather front slowly slipping its way south across the united kingdom so far today. it extending to the atlantic, coming in the south west overnight. increasingly wet. affecting the south of wales. and we have got that noticeable breeze, increasing amounts of rain, for southern england, and east anglia. generally speaking, it is not particularly cold, 10 degrees, but it is going to be turning colder through the day. windy. wet and windy. gusting around about 50mph. wet to the north of england. extending to the south west, but for northern ireland, brighter, and it looks as though the main area has not got to the south east, cloudy start here. particularly west to east. showers getting going. temperatures dipping back to single figures. colder air moves in. in that, creeping across all parts. drop in those temperatures. showers around. tuesday, widespread frost. some sunshine. wintry showers. notjust high ground. cold start. further wintry showers. cold again on thursday. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm. another warning over health service funding — a leading nhs executive says many trusts will struggle to meet targets. police are hunting a man over the death of a one—year—old boy in north london. the boy's twin sister was also critically injured in the incident. i would like to urge the help of the general public in trying to trace the following male. he is bidhya sagar das, a 33—year—old male of asian heritage. the liberal democrat leader tim farron calls on tory mps opposed to theresa may's vision for brexit to defect to his party. also in the next hour, the water main in derby that burst with such force it damaged houses and cars. residents said they thought a bomb had gone off, as water crashed through their bedroom windows in the middle of the night.

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