The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spent just over Rs 380 crore (about half the price of a Jumbo Jet) on Chandrayaan-1, with 1,000 scientists toiling over it for three years. A similar effort by NASA or any other space agency would have cost at least five times more. In real terms, Chandrayaan-1 cost only about 4% of Isro’s budget over three years. How did Isro do it? “Optimisation,” says its chairman G Madhavan Nair, in an exclusive interview to STOI. “There are some tests the Americans would have done six times and we did only thrice. We scrutinise every parameter and optimised the tests. Yes, you may call it a calculated risk, but, touch wood, we have been successful with this approach so far.’
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Indians are known to be cheap travelers. Last year they made the cheapest commercially produced car in the world in the from of the Tata Nano. Now its the cheapest moon probe. Indians have always had a love of the economy class.
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