A week ahead of the fireworks and lights celebrating the festival of Diwali, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s own rocket show should have got off the ground.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, ISRO was preparing to launch an uncrewed spacecraft to map the moon in more detail than ever before – a far cry from ISRO’s beginnings in the 1960s, when its first office was a church in Kerala.
India’s maiden moon mission Chandrayaan may have cost less than other countries’ lunar missions – $80 million as opposed to $140 million for the European Space Agency’s SMART-1 – but its aims are no less ambitious. “For…
