india's 1st soft landing on the moon. to select a landing site is about 600 kilometers from the lunar south pole a region of craters on the dark side of the moon. the blue markings here showing frozen ice in craters as spotted by satellites. given the high plateau the landing robot should touch down gently amid ancient rocks. after landing will open its doors and release india's 1st lunar rover on to the surface small as a briefcase it can travel up to 500 meters. with its on board instruments the rover will measure water bearing minerals in the lunar rock as well as the concentration of elements such as aluminum silicon and titanium. meanwhile the landing robot will

record moonquakes and explore so-called luna plasma a thin layer of electrically charged particles above the surface. and the rover will be able to collect data for a few earth days then it will go dark for 14 days that's when the temperature drops to $160.00 degrees below 0 celsius. the all but it will spend a year gathering data about the moon the objective is to fill in the gaps from india's previous mission it has 8 measuring instruments on board their function is to investigate the moon's fin atmosphere and show which minerals and chemical elements make up its surface. for the 1st time a special radar will be used to determine the location and quantity of frozen water . india's mission is the 1st to bring this type of instrument to the moon.

and for more i'm joined tonight by a group of seeing who is considered an authority on india's space endeavors his latest book is entitled the indian space program india's incredible journey from the 3rd world towards the 1st mr singh joins us tonight from manchester in the u.k. mr singh welcome it's good to have you on the day how did you feel today when you saw that rocket launch and head for the move. exhilarated and really this was as you know the 2nd attempt it's a very complex and intricate. business than what you want and one of the things i think that been missing is that not many people recognize that this would be the market even with us today is

a relatively new can occur and it's only today that you and operational like it at 3 previous developmental flights so if you saw a great relief to light and successful and i understand it's also incredibly inexpensive compared to other rockets produced by other countries is is that one of the the qualities that india can bring to what appears to be this international space race that it can get into outer space and cut costs at the same talking. well certainly it is one of the lower cost. engines sees that. both in the today's international commercial they feel. not on board flights for india but also for countries around the world because with . the in addition to the lower cost india

just acted being a great deal of experience india has $1.00 of the oldest space program started with back in $96.00 and today cars are huge infrastructure which allows us. to cooperate with international partners. with. europe and america but also with russia in terms of the. cost i think the increasing development in the commercial that i think also we can prove it still won't know what cost to getting into space operating them will be something that becomes cheap enough more and more players will move countries which traditionally went out because of it and to take part in things missing let me ask you we've got about a minute left you mentioned cooperation would you say that there is a

a new space race taking place right now one that is international in its nature. i think it's healthy competition and that's always in the room moves not to space programs the nature of. innovation and economic growth come from. competition and the space race merely stems from the old days of the cold war and sure in those days when there was just america and russia was the u.s.'s size it was then we're the only player in the place in space but today he's there is in the news just one of the many places and hopefully will collaborate not only with. the place in your growth in china just as. russia and america not elaborate hoping one day trying that in india will also

collaborate. blogger and author of the indian space program mr singh we certainly appreciate your insights tonight thank you. well the day is nearly done the conversation continues online to find us on twitter you can follow me here or at golf t.v. here and remember whatever happens between now and then to morrow is another day it will see that it got.

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