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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.

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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 ,,. .. . ..