The Most Underrated Space Program In the World 

*Lots of comments dislike that I called ISRO's program scrappy.* There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of what I meant. When I said scrappy, I was referring to India's resourcefulness, doing more with less. I mentioned that the entire Indian Department of Space budget for 2023 is $1.5 billion compared to the U.S. budget of $50 billion. So yes, it is scrappy in the sense that it's resourceful and determined. I thought India's space program was super important to cover, and even more so considering many big RU-vid channels often ignore ISRO's achievements. Try brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.

Loved India, spent 4 months there working with their navy. So proud of how advanced their space program has become. Congrats to india from US🇮🇳❤️🇺🇸

I am so proud of our brothers and sisters in India! We are all one Earth, Family. Amazing! Wow India!

As Vikram Sarabhai said, we are not in a race. We just want to explore and use technology for the well-being of humans. But we will be happy to take your science experiment to the moon for a low price.

This is an amazing accomplishment for India as they became the first country to reach the south pole of the moon. Chandrayan 1 discovered water in the moon so India will explore those areas. If we want to have a lunar base we need water as fuel. I am excited about India's space research. Exciting times.

Fun fact This rocket launch became the highest number of live stream viewership of all times on RU-vid.

india might lack in funds but has brains to use the funds efficiently,that is were isro stands unique and different from other space agencies

ISRO used to be under-rated. But not anymore 🙏🔥

I think what most of the world considers wrong about the reason low cost is just 'cheap labour'. Yes labour is cheap in India, But that is not the only reason, In fact far from being the only reason. Home grown Equipments, sling shot technique to use gravity and many other small but collective steps to do things in Budget.

Ummm… India‘s mission is not just cheap because of “labour market” but also in the method applied for sending the spacecraft! That is why Luna (Russian moon rover) took 4-5 days to reach Moon while India’s took 45 days. Wish this website while doing research actually does it’s research well.

loved the fact you called "small and scrapy" instead of "successful and efficient" which cleary shows the reason of making these videos.

Indias space agency might be small but not scrappy ppl say isro and indians are frugal in nature. Engineering things in a frugal way without compromising the quality is not so easy thats what engineering means optimize the things and make them efficient.

In 2 September another mission will be launched by ISRO. 🇮🇳 The mission is "Aditya L1" it will be the sun 🌞..! Dear Cindy, Thank you for making Video on Srinivasa Ramanujan as well as thank you so much for making video on ISRO... 😘😘

These days when i look at the moon, i suddenly start to look at the south and the notice the dark part of the moon, and wonder in amazement that metals and minerals combined together by humans in India, sent a space craft 388,545 Km from Earth to the Moon. Its like ants working together for their home, or honeybees for their homes, and humans collaborating for Earth.

ISRO is not comparable to bigger and better funded space agencies like NASA, CNSA, Roscosmos etc since it doesn't vision itself as a competitor from the beginning. But at the same time it doesn't want to lag behind in the space sector. Apart from low per capita income and use of domestically developed parts, process optimization is another area where ISRO focuses on when designing and executing a project due to budgetary constraint. Hence, frugality became important part of their engineering philosophy.

Mark my word, ISRO is going to rule the space commercial market because of its high success rate and cost effectiveness

From bicycle to moon. This is the journey of Incredible space research organisation aka ISRO

One way to look at India's "Low labor costs" compared to US and EU is to acknowledge the cost of living crisis in the west. Average salary for JPL engineer (not just any regular NASA systems engineer), located in Pasadena, CA, is approx 110k. 100k household income in Bay Area and Southern Cali is considered below poverty line. When you check the ISRO salaries by cost of living parity. It's like making 80k USD in US Mid West.

4:33 Indias rocket lauching centre is in sriharikota which is in eastern side.What you have shown was the old launch centre

This channel is educational i hope some salty people won't pass racist comment

I know for people from US, this might be normal because they have landed people on moon in 1969. But as an Indian, this is a very emotional and historic day for us. With the updated tech of the 21st century, I hope we can land people on moon for lunar space station by 2035.

I think comparison to NASA in regards to budget NASA is kinda bland and not right as it was established much earlier and as mentioned in the video it has accomplished a lot more and succesfully so. There should be a third country's space program also included for a clearer and better comparison...ISRO is new in comparison and growing to be a reliable, trusted and courageous space organisation. Its pride of our nation❤. And we here are very glad and hope this will inspire and increase the curiosity over space and astronomy in indian youth and result in even more incredible achievements over the coming years. Jai Hind

Bycycle to moon🚀 What a journey ❤️

our next Target should be Mars. China landed on moon in 2013 within 10years landed on Mars last year 2022. India is slowly Gearing up seeing 3rd largest startup ecosystem globally in top 15 crypto currencies. Of world POLYGON is Indian.

Russia and US are the pioneers already accompanied by China. We are developing our capabilities at slower pace but with higher success rate, and limited objectives and budget. We've no competitions with others, but ourselves. Thanks to all scientists who are working tirelesslyfor putting out human objects into space.

Isro's newest Rocket will be the NLV ....NLV will be much more powerful than GSLV M3 or LVM M3/M4

She is awakening, this motherland of ours, from her deep long sleep. None can desist her any more; never is she going to sleep any more; no outward powers can hold her back any more; for the infinite giant is rising to her feet. - Swami Vivekananda 🇮🇳

such a heart melting mini doc ,we are developing nation but our aims are high : we don't have intentions to compete with world and never was , "the world is one family" we like to walk with hand in hand with other nations, lets celebrate this Humanity achievement and keep working hard for the bright future of india and so worlds.

Underrated for the world. But we indians always know that isro scientist are best in the world, hands down. It just a matter of time when they will get appropriate budget and will give the world which we never had. A NEW PERSPECTIVE. We r not in a race we are in journey, remember that.

Appreciated that my favourite channel has uploaded video on this...❤ Love from India 🇮🇳

It's a proud moment for all Indians.. from Cycle to moon ❤

as an Indian i feel so proud :)

Thank you for showing my county's success story. Love from India to The brothers and sisters of USA

Really happy for India 👏 Here’s to a bright future … a cricket match on the moon is long overdue!

Love the quality of content on this channel !

Great video Cindy!

This video is perfect, with bringing down other agency around the world they were able to highlight ISRO achievement. It made me happy 🙏🙏🍻🍻

Congratulations India 🇮🇳 Proud to born in India ❤🕉️🙏

ISRO launched the "Aditya L1 mission" to the sun at 11:50am Indian standard time on September 2. It will be the first space based observatory to study the sun. The spacecraft, after travelling about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth over 125 days, is expected to be placed in a Halo orbit around the Lagrangian point L1, which is considered closest to the sun.

Gaganyaan 1 will be a test flight onboard with a humanoid robot named Vyommitra, which will be launched in late Oct 2023. And Gaganyaan 2 where 3 astronauts onboard will lift off to space & will spend 3 days on the orbit will be launched in 2025.

Proud to witness this!

Wow congratulations Indians 🇮🇳

*Just one correction regarding Cheap labour* :- ISRO is Government owned agency so No matter whatever Missions they doing..They get paid a fixed amount of salary every month even if they don't working on/launching any missions at all or even if they working on multiple space mission projects at same time. So the thing to note here is that Those total budget of certain missions or in particular any space mission, it don't include or counts the monthly pay/salary of scientists & engineers as Those same scientists & engineers work on all other missions as well which costs varies from chandrayaan mission's cost, so fixed monthly pay of govt employees literally don't make any difference or have any effect on total budget of any missions. Same goes for Nasa that all those employees employed by US government for working in Nasa gets monthly fixed salary No matter whatever mission they r launching or even when not launching any mission at all, as the same employees works/contribute more or less collectively on all missions & works under nasa, So in their tons of different space missions project budget..i don't think it counts the monthly salary under any particular space project's budget coz monthly pay is fixed & will remain same even if scientists working on some different mission project along side another one aka multiple space mission projects simultaneously.

Never heard anyone saying India's space program is underrated!

Congrats to india for keeping and hardworking engineers and people behind this space program

India’s got some dawgs!

I hope the world will soon see India's might it used to have.

I was waiting for this episode, we are so proud of our scientist ❤❤

India's space program is so less expensive for the same reason, that 1kg of any goods costs 1/4th of what it costs in USA... Even after converting currency. Cost of same materials and lifestyle is 4-5 times more in USA... Purchasing power parity..

Isros records- found water on the moon, sending 103 satelities in one rocket, reached mars on first try, landed a rover on the south pole of the moon!! All done at a tiny budget.

Awesome,upwards n onwards

Ah the south ! Where even the ancient Temples were shaped as vimanas (spacecraft).❤ Full of highly intelligent, civilized and hard working people.

ISRO is truly love! ❤️ They display passion unlike most established and highly paid space organisations.

Great achievement in that budget 🎉

Scrappy? Those products look sophisticated …

Great coverage. It's nice that you mentioned the name of great Vikram Sarabhai ji. And thank you for highlighting what Dr. S Muthusamy had to say about ISRO's success. Unfortunately here back in India, ISRO's achievements are not portrayed with views and expressions of scientists by the media, rather they just want to show what the PM have to say about ISRO😂.

My brother has a black n white poster of the cycle transporting rocket parts in his room, the most inspirational picture ever

(1) Chandrayan - 1 launched in 2008 confirmed presence of Water H2O on Moon. (2) Chandrayan -3 . Here are the first observations from the ChaSTE payload onboard Vikram Lander. Temperature on the surface of moon is 50°+ and -10° on just 8 cm deep ChaSTE (Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment) measures the Temperature Profile of the Lunar topsoil around the Pole, to understand the Thermal behaviour of the Moon's Surface. It has a Temperature Probe equipped with a Controlled Penetration Mechanism capable of reaching a depth of 10 cm beneath the surface. The probe is fitted with 10 individual Temperature Sensors. The presented graph illustrates the temperature variations of the lunar surface/near-surface at various depths, as recorded during the Probe's Penetration. This is the first such profile for the lunar south pole. (3) Chandrayan -3 : Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Pragyan Rover unambiguously confirms the presence of SULPHUR (S) in the Lunar Surface near the South Pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements. Al, Ca, Fe, Cr, Ti, Mn, Si, and O - OXYGEN are also detected.

Thankyou for This ❤❤❤❤

1:11 I didnt know that, Intresting!

This scrappy RU-vid channel is so Underrated

As an Indian I don't want earth politics in outer space. Be it moon or mars.

If NASA and ISRO join hands, it’ll mean a glorious and prosperous future for our future generations. NASA’s cutting edge technology coupled with India’s innovation and resourcefulness - match made in heaven.

For some who still questions our development of space assests for betterment of social services i would like remind you of couple of things , just providing data to fishermen we save more than 2-3 billions ( maybe more ) in fuel saving alone same goes which airlines thabks to NAVIC , and we have cheapest data rates in the world , which inturns provides uncalculatable billions of dollars of goods and services to our economic sustainability.

1:43 scrappy ????

The most beautiful news video I have seen on the topic

Proud of you guys 👏

Being underrated has its own benefits

India is just getting started baby!!

Today Pragyan rover sent the pics of Vikram lander. The landing site is kind of sloppy, not flat. Vikram on moon surface is looking so amazing.

1:45 small and scrappy.?

What an amazing achievement. India should be proud!!

'Astronomical ' in English also used to refer to higher costs and it's antonym is 'cheaper'. But India made this antonym a synonym.

Humble beginning, Major achievements & many more missions to follow . Kudo's to Isro team . Present PMO is supporting them well. Bharatha Desha Heethaya ..

When british arrived in india to trade , they saw how rich india is. But they also noticed how innocent and divided 😞 indians are. When british left, we were one of the poorest. Around 50 million indians died directly becoz of british induced famines. We hav seen enough, it is our time to bring back our glory, not becoz we wanna take revenge on anyone, but becoz we know our karma is what we can rely on. We r responsible for whatever happened to us and we take full responsibility of whatever will happen to us. Thats why i m proud that my govt has always stayed non-aligned. We dont care if u divide the world in two blocks and start a war. We know they wd wanna make us believe that we dont hav any choice bt we will let them know that there is always a more peaceful and non violent choice. And the growth 📈 lies along that choice. We will share technologies to all the nations becoz there is no copyright on the usefulness of knowledge for betterment of human beings. We will make india ,not a superpower but a world guru. We will rule the world by our deeds and compassion.

Some wrong info: 1. Rocket is not made in Mumbai but the company that makes the rocket has headquarters in Mumbai 2. Vikram Sarabhai space center is shown in Kerela in the map but it's in Andhra Pradesh And I think the video is more about US space programs rather than ISRO's !

*Latest ISRO Update : Chandrayaan 3 Lander conducted Hop Experiment on lunar south pole🇮🇳👊 Thus INDIA became The Second Country to make Hop on the MOON and became First Country to Hop on the South Pole of MOON😍⚡* *Video Posted On ISRO Official Pages🔥*

lol the engines are built in town where i live, vikhroli, great to see it on global map 💗

Background music is lit. This is what is played in our street and our homes all the time. Creators of this video must have done some intense research on our culture before selecting the music.

1:45 scrappy? mind ur language atleast lol

Great achievement by India 🎉

You are fool, It's not due to cheap labor but due to PPP. India has 10 Trillion dollar GDP in terms of PPP.

On September 2nd, 2023 ISRO launched an orbiter to study the sun. If successful, It will become the First Asian Space agency or the third Space Agency globally to set an Orbiter around the Sun, just after the US & EU's space agencies.

What do you mean by scrappy it's an organization 50 year old and have completed critical missions in first or second attempt why so negative all the time 🤔🤔

Congrats to India!

1:43, it might be small compared to other space agencies but not at all scrappy

INDIA is going to launch AADITYA L-1 mission, India's first solar observatory on September 2nd this year. **We want video on that also after it gets successful, which it will.**

pj never disappoint

Never underestimate india & indians 🇮🇳🇮🇳. 😊🙏🏻

1:40 India's small and scrappy space agency?? WTH???

ISRO recently launched Aditya L1 solar probe on 2nd September to study Sun .

Actually I heard they were testing the "shock withholding capacity" of the spacecraft using cheap alternatives, not transporting

One day Humanity will also send a Rocket in Uranus

We believe one earth one family, so all are brother and sister and Friend.

just so uu know,earning 1000$ in INDIA is equal to 80000 rs which is a very good amount to earn ever month

Better leadership is paving way for success in India ❤

01:22 😂 He nailed it

🇮🇳 launched mission to study sun 🌞 solar flares Lauch of Aditya L1 was successfully on 2nd September Mark by now famous words "LIFT OFF NARMAL" Isro 💪💪🇮🇳

the man behind indias Glory Mr Vikram Sarabhai

I just love how they in sweet voice teach us how bad and behind or shady we are 😂