How India is surprising the world with low cost space missions ..

India has had two successful space launches the past ten days, one was the Orbiter, lander and rover of Chandrayaan 3 (successfully landed on ShivShakthi point in the lunar south pole) and the other the space craft Aditya L1  which has also started its 125 daylong journey to the first lagrange point L1 of the sun earth 2 body mass system.

While all nations are upbeat about India rising as a power in space, what is baffling the world nations is our low cost missions. While the Chandrayaan 3 mission cost just about $75 million, the Aditya L1 mission cost is around $ 40 million.

How does India realise these low cost missions ?

Being smart in India is not only being intelligent, but also being very cost sensitive. Cost sensitiveness is part of our genome. If we find anyone splurging money or resources, the society looks down upon him and this is a big demotivator for people to splurge and is motivated to do big things with least expenditure on resources, be it cash, material, time, effort or any other. 

The Indian psyche is focussed on how to do more smart things at less cost. Value creation is part of the Indian thought process. 

The way we source materials, get the technology, pay our scientists and technologists, prepare our budgets, plan out testing, and plan on marketing, all our eyes are trained to carry them put at the lowest cost. Value for an Indian is first focusing on costs along with functions, quality and performance. 

Probably this mindset is in the Indian society due to the looting and hence impoverished economy and stolen natural resources due to the British colonialism which drained us of a massive $41 trillion during the two hundred years of British colonialism. While we are not vociferous on getting this back from the British, we know they never can repay these debts, we are very eager to avoid recurrence of such situations in our country and hence this national drive and urge to conserve resources and costs of any activity and pursuit.

This can be a great lesson for other countries of the world on how to organise and manage such thriftful economies.

Thrift is essential to well ordered living - John D Rockefeller

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