a raise of hands a show of hands for all
of you who understand what this word
means so that’s quite a few so great for
all of those who don’t understand this
word when we refer to this word we do
not refer to anything that has to do
with the moon we are not talking about a
dream we are talking about a crazy crazy
audacious goal and it takes three things
three fundamental things in our eyes to
live it
perseverance honesty and passion you get
these three things in place and you will
be there and things will fall into place
I am NOT saying it’s going to be an easy
journey but it will definitely be a
fulfilling journey in 2005 I was 12
years old and that’s when I came across
this robot this is the second Martian
Rover it’s called spirit it weighs a
couple of hundred kilograms it was built
by NASA and sent to Mars and I was so
blown away by the magnitude of
technology and innovation that went into
this that I decided that I’m gonna build
into plans here over his back then and I
also decided that when I get a dog I’m
gonna call my dog Rover
so what followed afterwards were
numerous competitions papers research
projects basically thing is nobody in a
classroom can teach you how to build a
rover I mean that’s not a standard
course the only way you can learn it is
if you get yourself out there if you you
know if you get your hands so if you get
some elbow grease and that’s that’s what
I did throughout until I landed up a
team in this today my team and I are
working at the first India’s first
private actually the world’s first
private privately funded mission to to
another planet we’re going to the moon
and I would like to introduce to you
Iike Iike or a chhoti SI asha is a micro
lunar rover that is going to the moon it
has two cameras on the top which will
drive 500 meter
and said that high-definition images
this has never been done before
oh and I also got a dog and I don’t call
her over it just so happens he was a
female but the name stayed now team in
assists moon shot is is true in it in a
both literal and a figurative sense
literal why because they’ll actually go
into the moon and metaphorically why
because it is indeed a crazy crazy
audacious goal back in 2007 XPrize
Foundation got Google to back them up
and they launched an international
competition called the glxp Google Lunar
XPrize for a prize when you have thirty
million dollars and they asked private
teams being 90 percent privately funded
soft land a spacecraft on the moon and
drive 500 meters on the lunar surface
team in this is in team Indus is India’s
entry to that competition and we plan on
launching only our first quarter next
year so that’s first week of March and
we plan on finishing the whole mission
before March 31 March 31st
now to put things into perspective there
are three aspects of this mission
once Iike or the micro Rover which arm
which you see right here the second is
the Lander this is also completely
designed in-house by our team and the
third is is rose workhorse the PSLV
ekeus sits on the lander in the name of
Alana’s hhk which stands for hum honge
kamyab
and HK and he cut together sit in the
nose cone of the PSLV the PSLV picks
these two deploys it at an 800 kilo
meter altitude from mean sea level using
Earth’s gravity we slingshot around
other things that we see whenever Israel
launches something something pretty
similar whiskey pond sling we keep on
shooting around Earth we keep on
increasing the height of our orbit and
we keep on doing it until we get
captured by the moon once we get
captured by the moon we start breaking
now space cards the spacecraft is
traveling close to seven point two
kilometers per second and it takes two
seconds for any command any information
or anything to you know
for us to receive it and then we need to
spend more time thinking about it what
do we do next
so the next few minutes are similar to
the terror minutes which which Curiosity
rover underwent before it landed the
spacecraft has to autonomously detect
hazards avoid them and soft land this is
the trickiest part of the mission but
once that happens Iike is deployed all
to the lunar surface and she finishes
the last 500 meters of the four large
journey I would like to bring to your
notice that when we started out we were
competing against 30 teams we were
competing against teams who were already
in the space industry but today there
are only two teams that stand a chance
to win this competition one is us and
then the other are the Israelis and I’m
not sure all now there are only three
nations that have gone to the moon the
Russians the American in the Chinese the
Chinese went back it’s on 13 and the
whole Rover was about 130 kilograms the
Russians actually built a huge bath tub
and put eight wheels around it and they
did that back in 1970s and the Americans
literally send sent a two-seater car you
know two people hopped on it they mean
Neil Armstrong did and when they roamed
around while this is only seven and a
half kilograms my point here is there is
no precedents to this kind of
engineering I mean the entire wheel soil
mechanics and all all those things are
different and we cannot find you know
readily available information or even
equations or methods or algorithms to
solve it so we had to start from scratch
now our journey has been a rather
remarkable one from being ranked
outsiders to being on the cusp of
history and I want to take you through
our journey December 31st 2010 was the
deadline for registration
Rahul Narayan is our CEO and founder and
he has an IT entrepreneur and he was
waiting for an Indian team to register
so that he could you know render his eye
he services too but pretty flustered to
find that till December 30th no Indian
team was in it he decided to a believe a
faith he power $50,000 and then he just
registered himself he woke up in the
next year and first thing he did was you
know just to let it sink in oh my god
would have a signed up for and the
second thing that he did was he got four
guys to sit around a table and Google
how to build a space spacecraft
believe me the first couple of results
that that he found and those four guys
found were about spacecrafts made out of
paper sugar and bread even NASA doesn’t
think that you know you can learn off
Google how to build a spacecraft and
actually go to the moon now we had very
very humble beginnings we were literally
a garage based bootstrapped band slash
company and the thing is okay so Elon
Musk wrote off the credibility that he
earned off PayPal Richard Branson once
said that if you want to be a
millionaire get a billion dollars and
start an airline or an aerospace company
we will be extreme opposite we were
extremely refrigeration so the next
couple of years we had about a thousand
papers thank God for NASA’s you know
open source not open source I mean all
the research they’ve done they’ve put it
up in the public domain and we made use
of that and we read about surveyor and
other missions that went to Mars and
around Earth and that’s how we build a
database by 2013 we figured out what we
have to do and we figure out a possible
strategy and then that was the time we
started pitching to investors I remember
part and my being a part of an investor
bead back in 2013 and after a two-hour
long drooling tech session and the guy
gets up and says Bravo guys I’ve really
impressed and when are you launching
this video game he just
fuse to believe that we were actually
going to the moon I mean after that
meeting even I had trouble believing but
no the entire team we just kept our head
slow and we kept marching on and that’s
what we had to do things really really
turned around in 2014 that’s when a
panel of judges organized by the
competition organizers glxp and at the
panel of judges were made out of
scientists from NASA and Israel and they
came to India became to battle they came
to our makeshift office to gauge how
technically ready our be and whether we
can prove our landing technology right
or wrong there was no second chance and
and and there was no walking away from
it but we nailed it we we walked away at
the end of the week with the million
dollars and that was the game changer
and that was I think what they were
saying about with those million dollars
and the credibility that we earn we went
out and right in are at campus we got
more hardware coming in we were able to
run more tests we built our clean rooms
and we caught the attention of retired
is slow questions today we stand about a
hundred and twenty strong and we stand
on the shoulders of two dozen Israel two
thousand Giants and we which are retired
is row veterans who bring with them more
than 400 years of Indian Space
engineering knowledge base and the help
is a each and every day to push further
towards this mission it’s it’s a
privilege to actually sit down with them
over tea coffee lunch you know and all
times of the day and deliberate on all
technicalities ranging from you know a
selection of a bolt to overall mission
strategy
you mean how many of us get a chance to
do that but here we are and in contrast
to what we experienced in 2013 we’ve got
some of the biggest players on the
Indian economic sphere backing us
you’ve got number Nilekani we got Ratan
Tata all because this once we were able
to build technology and
they started believing in us somewhere
inside this they share the same moonshot
nominally once said that I am not
investing in the mission but I am
investing in the impact this mission can
have on the Indian society what I’m
talking about is with this mission we
want to prove to the world what India is
capable of we want to tell the world
that even state-of-the-art technology is
high precision engineering and so on and
so forth can be born out of India as
well we want to inspire all the young
dreamers and the entrepreneurs that that
they’re no moonshot is too big a
moonshot and if you keep your heads to
it and if you just keep marching on you
will get there which is why we call this
her Indian common shot and moving on I
want to ask you guys I mean what’s
keeping you from living your mood shot I
mean there there are things that you
will have to let go I mean it could be a
college party or it could be I know a
little bit of classroom hours I don’t
know how that you know affects academics
and all or it could be hair I mean look
at me but the fact is that you’ll have
to make sacrifices and if somebody asks
me now was it all worth it is it worth
it I would even flip it for saying
absolutely so going to the moon is my
and my team’s moonshot I wonder what’s
yours thank you
of you who understand what this word
means so that’s quite a few so great for
all of those who don’t understand this
word when we refer to this word we do
not refer to anything that has to do
with the moon we are not talking about a
dream we are talking about a crazy crazy
audacious goal and it takes three things
three fundamental things in our eyes to
live it
perseverance honesty and passion you get
these three things in place and you will
be there and things will fall into place
I am NOT saying it’s going to be an easy
journey but it will definitely be a
fulfilling journey in 2005 I was 12
years old and that’s when I came across
this robot this is the second Martian
Rover it’s called spirit it weighs a
couple of hundred kilograms it was built
by NASA and sent to Mars and I was so
blown away by the magnitude of
technology and innovation that went into
this that I decided that I’m gonna build
into plans here over his back then and I
also decided that when I get a dog I’m
gonna call my dog Rover
so what followed afterwards were
numerous competitions papers research
projects basically thing is nobody in a
classroom can teach you how to build a
rover I mean that’s not a standard
course the only way you can learn it is
if you get yourself out there if you you
know if you get your hands so if you get
some elbow grease and that’s that’s what
I did throughout until I landed up a
team in this today my team and I are
working at the first India’s first
private actually the world’s first
private privately funded mission to to
another planet we’re going to the moon
and I would like to introduce to you
Iike Iike or a chhoti SI asha is a micro
lunar rover that is going to the moon it
has two cameras on the top which will
drive 500 meter
and said that high-definition images
this has never been done before
oh and I also got a dog and I don’t call
her over it just so happens he was a
female but the name stayed now team in
assists moon shot is is true in it in a
both literal and a figurative sense
literal why because they’ll actually go
into the moon and metaphorically why
because it is indeed a crazy crazy
audacious goal back in 2007 XPrize
Foundation got Google to back them up
and they launched an international
competition called the glxp Google Lunar
XPrize for a prize when you have thirty
million dollars and they asked private
teams being 90 percent privately funded
soft land a spacecraft on the moon and
drive 500 meters on the lunar surface
team in this is in team Indus is India’s
entry to that competition and we plan on
launching only our first quarter next
year so that’s first week of March and
we plan on finishing the whole mission
before March 31 March 31st
now to put things into perspective there
are three aspects of this mission
once Iike or the micro Rover which arm
which you see right here the second is
the Lander this is also completely
designed in-house by our team and the
third is is rose workhorse the PSLV
ekeus sits on the lander in the name of
Alana’s hhk which stands for hum honge
kamyab
and HK and he cut together sit in the
nose cone of the PSLV the PSLV picks
these two deploys it at an 800 kilo
meter altitude from mean sea level using
Earth’s gravity we slingshot around
other things that we see whenever Israel
launches something something pretty
similar whiskey pond sling we keep on
shooting around Earth we keep on
increasing the height of our orbit and
we keep on doing it until we get
captured by the moon once we get
captured by the moon we start breaking
now space cards the spacecraft is
traveling close to seven point two
kilometers per second and it takes two
seconds for any command any information
or anything to you know
for us to receive it and then we need to
spend more time thinking about it what
do we do next
so the next few minutes are similar to
the terror minutes which which Curiosity
rover underwent before it landed the
spacecraft has to autonomously detect
hazards avoid them and soft land this is
the trickiest part of the mission but
once that happens Iike is deployed all
to the lunar surface and she finishes
the last 500 meters of the four large
journey I would like to bring to your
notice that when we started out we were
competing against 30 teams we were
competing against teams who were already
in the space industry but today there
are only two teams that stand a chance
to win this competition one is us and
then the other are the Israelis and I’m
not sure all now there are only three
nations that have gone to the moon the
Russians the American in the Chinese the
Chinese went back it’s on 13 and the
whole Rover was about 130 kilograms the
Russians actually built a huge bath tub
and put eight wheels around it and they
did that back in 1970s and the Americans
literally send sent a two-seater car you
know two people hopped on it they mean
Neil Armstrong did and when they roamed
around while this is only seven and a
half kilograms my point here is there is
no precedents to this kind of
engineering I mean the entire wheel soil
mechanics and all all those things are
different and we cannot find you know
readily available information or even
equations or methods or algorithms to
solve it so we had to start from scratch
now our journey has been a rather
remarkable one from being ranked
outsiders to being on the cusp of
history and I want to take you through
our journey December 31st 2010 was the
deadline for registration
Rahul Narayan is our CEO and founder and
he has an IT entrepreneur and he was
waiting for an Indian team to register
so that he could you know render his eye
he services too but pretty flustered to
find that till December 30th no Indian
team was in it he decided to a believe a
faith he power $50,000 and then he just
registered himself he woke up in the
next year and first thing he did was you
know just to let it sink in oh my god
would have a signed up for and the
second thing that he did was he got four
guys to sit around a table and Google
how to build a space spacecraft
believe me the first couple of results
that that he found and those four guys
found were about spacecrafts made out of
paper sugar and bread even NASA doesn’t
think that you know you can learn off
Google how to build a spacecraft and
actually go to the moon now we had very
very humble beginnings we were literally
a garage based bootstrapped band slash
company and the thing is okay so Elon
Musk wrote off the credibility that he
earned off PayPal Richard Branson once
said that if you want to be a
millionaire get a billion dollars and
start an airline or an aerospace company
we will be extreme opposite we were
extremely refrigeration so the next
couple of years we had about a thousand
papers thank God for NASA’s you know
open source not open source I mean all
the research they’ve done they’ve put it
up in the public domain and we made use
of that and we read about surveyor and
other missions that went to Mars and
around Earth and that’s how we build a
database by 2013 we figured out what we
have to do and we figure out a possible
strategy and then that was the time we
started pitching to investors I remember
part and my being a part of an investor
bead back in 2013 and after a two-hour
long drooling tech session and the guy
gets up and says Bravo guys I’ve really
impressed and when are you launching
this video game he just
fuse to believe that we were actually
going to the moon I mean after that
meeting even I had trouble believing but
no the entire team we just kept our head
slow and we kept marching on and that’s
what we had to do things really really
turned around in 2014 that’s when a
panel of judges organized by the
competition organizers glxp and at the
panel of judges were made out of
scientists from NASA and Israel and they
came to India became to battle they came
to our makeshift office to gauge how
technically ready our be and whether we
can prove our landing technology right
or wrong there was no second chance and
and and there was no walking away from
it but we nailed it we we walked away at
the end of the week with the million
dollars and that was the game changer
and that was I think what they were
saying about with those million dollars
and the credibility that we earn we went
out and right in are at campus we got
more hardware coming in we were able to
run more tests we built our clean rooms
and we caught the attention of retired
is slow questions today we stand about a
hundred and twenty strong and we stand
on the shoulders of two dozen Israel two
thousand Giants and we which are retired
is row veterans who bring with them more
than 400 years of Indian Space
engineering knowledge base and the help
is a each and every day to push further
towards this mission it’s it’s a
privilege to actually sit down with them
over tea coffee lunch you know and all
times of the day and deliberate on all
technicalities ranging from you know a
selection of a bolt to overall mission
strategy
you mean how many of us get a chance to
do that but here we are and in contrast
to what we experienced in 2013 we’ve got
some of the biggest players on the
Indian economic sphere backing us
you’ve got number Nilekani we got Ratan
Tata all because this once we were able
to build technology and
they started believing in us somewhere
inside this they share the same moonshot
nominally once said that I am not
investing in the mission but I am
investing in the impact this mission can
have on the Indian society what I’m
talking about is with this mission we
want to prove to the world what India is
capable of we want to tell the world
that even state-of-the-art technology is
high precision engineering and so on and
so forth can be born out of India as
well we want to inspire all the young
dreamers and the entrepreneurs that that
they’re no moonshot is too big a
moonshot and if you keep your heads to
it and if you just keep marching on you
will get there which is why we call this
her Indian common shot and moving on I
want to ask you guys I mean what’s
keeping you from living your mood shot I
mean there there are things that you
will have to let go I mean it could be a
college party or it could be I know a
little bit of classroom hours I don’t
know how that you know affects academics
and all or it could be hair I mean look
at me but the fact is that you’ll have
to make sacrifices and if somebody asks
me now was it all worth it is it worth
it I would even flip it for saying
absolutely so going to the moon is my
and my team’s moonshot I wonder what’s
yours thank you
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