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A low budget Mars mission

unleashes the country's technological prowess

Without the immense contribution of the youths in promoting Information Technology,
India would not have entered the space age. Our ancestors might have played with snakes
but the generation now plays with the "Mouse"

These words of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Madison Square in the USA marks
India's coming of age as a strong technologically powerful country which breaks the old
stereotype image of the land of snake charmers.

n One of the metaphors to describe
India's incredible low-budgeted Mars India has established 357
mission has been that the expense foreign satellites of 34
for the country to reach the red countries in space orbit.
planet has been less than the auto
fare when assessed on the basis
of the per kilometre journey cost.
This has been made possible by the
technologically friendly policies of the
government which eyes establishing
India as a dominant space player
India became the fourth country in
n
the world to develop the indigenous
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT)
technology which is capable of
destroying satellites in space. This
was announced by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in March 2019 n Private enterprises have been allowed participation in

After the partial success of the the satellite launch and other space-based services
n
Chandrayaan 2 mission, approval has n In 2020 Indian astronomers discovered one of the
been given for Chandrayaan 3 farthest star galaxies in the universe

The work on the Gaganyaan mission
n n 13 space missions were completed in 2019 including 6
is in full swing which aims for launching vehicles and 7 satellite missions
the country's first manned space n Last year BSNL launched satellite-based Internet of
mission. It is scheduled to be Things (IoT) device service which enables calling in
launched on the occasion of the 75th seas from anywhere within the country's jurisdiction
anniversary of India's independence

In 2020 India On January 22, 2020,
sent its 42nd ISRO introduced its
communication first female half-
satellite named humanoid named
CMS-01 through Vyommitra in
PSLV-C50 Bengaluru
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