19/08/2017 Click - Short Edition

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Get ready, your Indian experience starts now.

As soon as you step off the plane, India hits you like a big,

It is everything you've ever imagined it to be.

The first thing you'll notice will be the traffic.

For 70 years this country has been independent of British rule

and the cities that have sprung up around the old colonial grandeur

seem chaotic, but they do kinda work.

And India has found a niche in the wider world.

Half of its 1.2 billion people are aged 35 or under.

Maybe that's why it's known for its IT know-how,

And the bosses of some of the biggest tech companies

But it hasn't had as much luck in taking over the world

After all, how many Indian tech brands can you name?

The truth is that although there is a middle class of consumers

here willing to buy brands, it's not actually that big

We're here to find out how India is preparing for its future and,

let me tell you, it is reaching for the stars.

In 2013, India became the fourth spacefaring nation to launch a probe

into orbit around Mars and, unlike those who came before them,

The Indian Space Research Organisation, Isro, has been gaining

a reputation for doing tons of successful space stuff

Their Mars mission came in at just $74 million,

that's less than it cost to make the film Gravity.

And, in February this year, they made history again by launching

a record 104 satellites on a single rocket.

It could just be that India has created the perfect combination

of big brains with big space experience, but a mentality

Just the sort of place you might go if you wanted to,

say, land a robot on the moon for the space equivalent

How confident are you that this will work?

Welcome to the earthbound HQ of Team Indus, one of a handful

of start-ups competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE,

that's $20 million for the first commercial company to land a rover

The Team Indus space craft goes into two days of Earth orbit

and then, boom, 4.5 days to the moon.

12 days of spiralling down to the surface and then if all goes

well, out comes the rover, travels half a kilometre,

sends back HD video and wins the prize.

Rahul Narayan is the co-founder of Team Indus and has been

here since the very start of the project, way back in 2010.

At that point you had no idea how you would acheive it?

Yes, I googled it and figured out what Wikipedia had to say

You did an internet search on how to land on the moon?

Did it have any useful information?

It said there had been 85 attempts and I think every second attempt

Six years later, there are around 100 people working very hard here,

and it certainly looks like they know their space stuff.

Even the toilets are appropriately labelled.

And they've built themselves all the things that a serious space

company should have, like a mission control room,

a model lander that makes smoke, and a simulated lunar surface

So what do you use to simulate moon dust?

Just like national space agencies, testing every component

and simulating every stage of the mission is a huge part

We're making sure we do everything right.

We are going to make it frugal, specific to the mission,

but there's absolutely no corners that we're cutting.

And, to look at it from a more philosophical way, we have one shot

We don't have a flight spare, so if one blows up we can go and fly

the other, we have to get this right.

Team Indus is one of five start-ups from around the world who have

secured launch contracts for their rovers.

While they can't say for sure, they think they'll launch before

any other team, and so perhaps be the first team to land and win!

That's except for the fact that to save costs they have had to sell

some of their spare launch weight to a competitor rover.

Japan's Team Hakuto will be onboard too.

You're both going to get to the moon at the same time.

Yes. How is that going to work?

It's whoever touches down first and whoever has the fastest rover?

It's going to be crazy! In a manner of speaking, yes.

So it's a race, it's going to be a very interesting race,

and once we touch down and both the rovers are deployed,

let's see which one makes 500m first.

All of that assumes of course that the rovers make it

Space exploration is a risky business and when it goes wrong,

Six years, hundreds of thousands of hours of effort and millions

spent, and there's certainly a lot riding on getting things right.

You mitigate the big pieces and then you start mitigating the smaller

risks and at the end of the day, absolutely, one small wrong piece

of code that somehow made it through could kill

There is a word here in India that I think describes Team Indus's

I've come to the centre of Mumbai, to Dharavi -

Here, in its tiny alleyways, "jugaad" is all around,

as a desperately poor population reuses as much

Built by workers who flocked to the city over hundreds of years,

some of the houses here date back to the 1840s.

Up ahead, there is a pile of shredded denim which they use

They burn it to fuel the kilns, just like they burn a lot of stuff

You can really tell the air quality is very poor.

You just have to take a few lungfuls and it starts to burn the back

of your throat, it makes your eyes sting.

The smoke is a necessary evil for the people of Dharavi.

Like most of the developing world, pollution has been the price India

The smog that gives Mumbai its spectacular sunsets has also

made it the fifth most polluted mega city in the world.

And when the sun disappears before it hits the horizon,

In November, 2016, the Indian government declared the air

pollution in Delhi a national emergency, with harmful pollutants

And it's not just caused by all that traffic.

I was surprised to find out a lot of it comes from diesel generators.

See, the electricity in India isn't very reliable,

but there are plenty of businesses that need guaranteed power,

so they have their own individual generators that fire up whenever

the electricity goes down and that means there are loads of exhaust

pipes like this all over the city, which regularly belch out all kinds

When you start looking for them, they're everywhere.

Here in Bangalore, we've come across a small project to capture

So what we have built is a retrofit device that attaches to the exhaust

This device can be attached to practically any exhaust pipe,

irrespective of what is the age or type of engine you are running,

and it captures practically whatever particle matter comes out of it.

Once you capture particle matter that is substantially carbon,

which is like the basis of everything that exists

in the world, at present we recycle it into inks,

which we believe is something used by practically everyone

The headquarters of Graviky Labs is a mix of art studio and mad

laboratory - the perfect combination, if you ask me!

Their so-called "air ink" does have a few restrictions.

It will only ever come in black, and at the moment it's not good

enough quality to be used in printers.

Graviky is giving it to artists, who are finding their own

Painting and screenprinting, for example, for use

And while the ink may only have limited uses at present,

Nikhil insists it is still better to put the carbon to good use rather

There are many technologies that have captured pollution in one way

or the other, they are all so supposed to do that,

but if you don't recycle it you are actually leaving it

I'm afraid that's all we have time for in the shortcut of Click, the

full-length version is for you on iPlayer to watch right now and

there's loads of extra photos from our trip to India on Twitter

@BBCclick. Thanks for watching and we'll see you soon.