Jitendra Singh Highlights India’s Ability to Execute Cost-Efficient Space Missions with Chandrayaan-3
Union Minister of State for Space Jitendra Singh has stated that Chandrayaan-3 has demonstrated India’s ability to conduct space missions in a cost-effective manner.
Speaking at an interactive meet of intellectuals, eminent citizens and media persons held in Indore on Saturday, “The failed Russian moon mission cost ₹ 16,000 and our (Chandrayaan-3) mission cost only about ₹ 600. Think Hollywood movies based on lunar and space missions , cost more than ₹600.
He said that India’s space missions are designed to be cost effective. According to him, India has learned to offset costs with the help of skills.
“Questions arise, how? We used gravitational forces, the spacecraft made about 20 orbits of the Earth, each ascending as a parabola, until it escaped and remained in the Moon’s gravity, making 70 to 80 orbits of the Moon before it landed at the designated point. he said.
Jitendra Singh said that to involve the private sector in R&D, Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the ‘Anusandhan National Research Foundation’ Bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha in the last session of the Parliament, with a budget of ₹50,000 crore. for over five years.
“Once fully implemented, it will be a game changer. We are planning a unique Public Private Partnership (PPP) structure with ₹36,000 crore of research funding coming from the private sector, mainly industry, while the government will invest ₹14,000 crore,” he said.
“We need to take this out of our minds that the government will and should do everything, developed countries did not achieve this by depending on their government alone. If NASA today sends rockets to the United States, private agencies and industry will make the biggest contribution to such missions,” the minister said.
India took a giant leap on Wednesday evening when the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully landed on the moon’s south pole, making it the first country to achieve the historic feat and ending the disappointing Chandrayaan-2 crash landing. , four years ago.
Overall, India became the fourth country – after the US, China and Russia – to successfully land on the moon.
After landing, the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover were to operate and perform set tasks and experiments for one lunar day. One day on the Moon corresponds to 14 days on Earth.
In its latest update, ISRO said, “Conduct of in situ science experiments (Chandrayaan-3) is underway. All payloads are functioning normally.”
The stated objectives of Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, were a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface, rover movement on the lunar surface, and on-site scientific experiments.
The spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh on July 14.
