India - Race to the Moon

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:00:00. > :00:15.Now on BBC News, it's time for Click.

:00:16. > :00:21.This week, bang for bangers, smoggy sunsets and angry anglegrinders.

:00:22. > :00:43.We go to India, as India goes to the moon.

:00:44. > :01:03.Get ready, your Indian experience starts now. As soon as you step off

:01:04. > :01:07.the plane, India hits you like a big, hot wall of noise. It is

:01:08. > :01:15.everything you've ever imagined it to be. It is life turned up. The

:01:16. > :01:20.first thing you will notice will be the traffic. It's always the

:01:21. > :01:28.traffic. Is the tip just test about? This looks like a gap. The sound is

:01:29. > :01:33.deafening! Everyone is honking. For 70 years this country has been

:01:34. > :01:37.independent of British rule and the cities that have sprung up around

:01:38. > :01:43.the old colonial brandy seemed chaotic, but they do kind of work.

:01:44. > :01:49.-- colonial grandeur. Kind of. And India has found a niche in the wider

:01:50. > :01:55.world. Half of its 1.2 million people are aged 35 or under. Maybe

:01:56. > :01:58.that's why it is known for its IT know-how, its outsourcing. And the

:01:59. > :02:03.bosses of some of the biggest tech companies in the world are Indian.

:02:04. > :02:08.But it hasn't had as much luck in taking over the world of consumer

:02:09. > :02:13.technology. After all, how many Indian tech brands can you name? The

:02:14. > :02:18.truth is that although there is a of consumers here willing to buy brands

:02:19. > :02:25.it isn't actually that big or that rich. Not that many people here can

:02:26. > :02:33.really afford the latest, or very much at all. We are here to see how

:02:34. > :02:46.India is preparing for its future and, let me tell you, it is reaching

:02:47. > :02:52.for the stars. In 2013, India became the fourth spacefaring nation to

:02:53. > :02:57.send a probe to mars and unlike those who came before them they did

:02:58. > :03:03.it on their first attempt. But the Indian space research Organisation,

:03:04. > :03:06.Isra, is gaining a reputation for doing tons of space stuff on a

:03:07. > :03:13.shoestring budget. There mars mission came in at just $74 million,

:03:14. > :03:17.that's less than it cost make the film Gravity. And in February this

:03:18. > :03:23.year they made history again by launching a record 104 satellites on

:03:24. > :03:27.a single rocket. It could just be that India has created the perfect

:03:28. > :03:32.combination of big brains with big space experience, but a mentality

:03:33. > :03:38.for doing things on the cheap. Just the sort of place you might go if

:03:39. > :03:43.you wanted to say land a robot on the moon for the space equivalent of

:03:44. > :03:53.small change. How confident are you that this will work? Welcome to the

:03:54. > :03:59.earthbound HQ of Team Indus, one of the handful of start-ups battling

:04:00. > :04:03.for the prize of $20 million for the first commercial company to land a

:04:04. > :04:14.robot on the moon. December, 2017, last. The Team Indus goes into orbit

:04:15. > :04:17.and then 4.5 days to the moon. 12 days of spiralling down to the

:04:18. > :04:22.surface and if all goes well out comes the Team -- the rover that

:04:23. > :04:36.wins the prize. What could possibly go wrong? Rahul is the co-founder of

:04:37. > :04:41.Team Indus and has been here since the start of the project, way back

:04:42. > :04:48.in 2010. At that point you had no idea? I googled and figured out what

:04:49. > :04:53.Wikipedia had to say about landing on the mood. You did and internet

:04:54. > :05:01.search on how to land on the moon? Absolutely. -- on the moon. Did it

:05:02. > :05:05.have any useful information? Yes. It said there had been 85 attempts and

:05:06. > :05:10.I think every second attempt failed. Six years later there are about 100

:05:11. > :05:13.people working very hard here and it certainly looks like they know their

:05:14. > :05:19.space stuff. Star Wars in particular. Even the toilets are

:05:20. > :05:23.appropriately labelled. And they've built themselves all the things that

:05:24. > :05:28.are serious -- a serious space company should have, mission control

:05:29. > :05:32.room, a model lander that makes smoke and Luna service complete with

:05:33. > :05:39.a robot to go on it. -- lunar surface. What do you use to simulate

:05:40. > :05:48.space dust? We just went to a star on quarry and asked them to give us

:05:49. > :05:52.the milling output. -- stone quarry. It is supposed to be very

:05:53. > :05:57.electrostatic. That means it will stick to the Rover? That's correct.

:05:58. > :06:04.That's one part that will get into every preparation, the lens of the

:06:05. > :06:07.camera. Just like National Space Centre in this, testing every

:06:08. > :06:11.component and simulating every stage of the mission is a huge part of

:06:12. > :06:16.what they're doing here. We are making sure we do everything right.

:06:17. > :06:20.We are just not making it fancy. We will make it frugal, specific to the

:06:21. > :06:24.mission, but there's absolutely corners we are cutting and to look

:06:25. > :06:30.at it from a more philosophical way we have one shot to win this. If one

:06:31. > :06:34.blows up we can't go and find the other, we have to get this right.

:06:35. > :06:40.Team Indus is one of five start-ups from around the world that have

:06:41. > :06:47.launched contracts. They think they will launch before any other team.

:06:48. > :06:51.So perhaps be the first team to land and win that except for the fact

:06:52. > :06:56.that to save costs they have had this sells some of their launch

:06:57. > :07:02.weight to a competitive Rover. A Japanese team will also be onboard.

:07:03. > :07:06.You will both get to the moon at the same time. How is that going to

:07:07. > :07:11.work? It is whoever touches down first! Who has the fastest Rover?

:07:12. > :07:18.It's going to be crazy. In a manner of speaking, yes. What do you expect

:07:19. > :07:23.to happen? It is a race, it will be a very interesting race and once we

:07:24. > :07:28.test the Rovers we will see which one makes it first. I would put a

:07:29. > :07:32.laser gun on yours. All of that assumes of course that the Rovers

:07:33. > :07:36.make it to the moon in the first place. Space exploration is a risky

:07:37. > :07:42.business and when it goes wrong it tends to go really wrong. Six years,

:07:43. > :07:45.hundreds of thousands of hours of effort and millions spent and

:07:46. > :07:52.there's certainly a lot riding on getting things right. You mitigate

:07:53. > :07:55.the big pieces and then the smaller risks and at the end of the day

:07:56. > :08:01.absolutely on, small, round piece that somehow made it -- its way

:08:02. > :08:07.through will kill the entire mission.

:08:08. > :08:20.There is a word here in India but I think describes Team Indus's

:08:21. > :08:27.low-cost, make do approach. I've come to the centre of Mumbai, to

:08:28. > :08:34.Asia's second largest slum. Here in its tiny alleyways the word is all

:08:35. > :08:39.around, as the desperately poor population reuses as much as is

:08:40. > :08:43.physically possible. Built by workers who flocked to the city over

:08:44. > :08:48.hundreds of years, some of the houses here date back to the 1840s.

:08:49. > :09:00.It is an intense experience in the middle of an intense city. You

:09:01. > :09:04.really do get a sense of the scale of the place up here and it's a

:09:05. > :09:09.weird scale as well, because it is actually quite small. It's only two

:09:10. > :09:16.square kilometres, but around 1 million people live here. It's

:09:17. > :09:19.phenomenally densely packed and it's not just people living here and

:09:20. > :09:23.doing nothing, this place has a working infrastructure and a working

:09:24. > :09:32.economy. This place really does work. 10,000 businesses generate 30

:09:33. > :09:38.billion groupies for Mumbai every year. They make things and they

:09:39. > :09:42.recycle things. Like all those plastic bottles drying on the roof,

:09:43. > :09:52.which are shredded into reusable plastic pallets. The production line

:09:53. > :09:57.is in itself a work of beauty. This is where they make the machines that

:09:58. > :10:10.recycle plastic, so I guess this is a factory. Once finished these

:10:11. > :10:15.machines will chew up the plastic, which is then washed, sorted and

:10:16. > :10:22.dried. The work is heavy and hard. And for a wage that affords the most

:10:23. > :10:27.meagre of existences. It is incredible to think that 55% of

:10:28. > :10:35.Mumbai's ovulation lives in slums like this one. -- population. Up

:10:36. > :10:42.ahead there is a kind of shredded denim which they use for fuel, they

:10:43. > :10:46.burn it to fuel the kilns, just like they use for many other things here,

:10:47. > :10:49.and there is smoke everywhere was not you can really tell the air

:10:50. > :11:01.quality is very poor. You just have to take if you lung fulls and it

:11:02. > :11:06.makes your eyes sting. The smoke is a necessary evil for the people

:11:07. > :11:09.here. Like most of the developing world, pollution has been the price

:11:10. > :11:18.India is paying for a booming economy. The smog gives Mumbai its

:11:19. > :11:22.spectacular sunsets but also makes it the fifth most polluted mega city

:11:23. > :11:31.in the world. And when the sun disappears before it hits the

:11:32. > :11:34.horizon, you can hardly believe it. In November, 2016, the Indian

:11:35. > :11:39.government declared the air pollution in Delhi on national

:11:40. > :11:44.emergency, with harmful pollutants more than 16 times the national

:11:45. > :11:50.limit. And it isn't just caused by all of the traffic. It come from? I

:11:51. > :11:54.was surprised to find out a lot of it comes from diesel generators. The

:11:55. > :11:58.electricity is India isn't very reliable, but plenty of businesses

:11:59. > :12:01.need guaranteed power, they have there own individual generators to

:12:02. > :12:05.fire up whenever the logistical is down and that needs there are loads

:12:06. > :12:10.of exhaust pipes like this all over the city, which regularly belch out

:12:11. > :12:17.all kinds of unpleasant stuff. When you start looking for them, they're

:12:18. > :12:26.everywhere. Even the mobile masts have backup generators.

:12:27. > :12:36.Hello. Here in Bangalore we've come across a small projects to capture

:12:37. > :12:40.the sort and turn it into art. -- soot.

:12:41. > :12:49.What we have is a device that attaches to the exhaust pipe of the

:12:50. > :12:52.chimneys and this can be attached to pretty much any exhaust pipe,

:12:53. > :13:04.irrespective of what is the age or type of things that it is running.

:13:05. > :13:08.Once you capture what is substantially carbon, it is the

:13:09. > :13:13.basis of basically everything that exists in the world. At present we

:13:14. > :13:20.recycle it into something that is maybe used by practically everything

:13:21. > :13:25.on the planet. The headquarters of the labs is a mix of art studio and

:13:26. > :13:32.mad laboratory, the perfect combination if you ask me! Their

:13:33. > :13:37.so-called Air Ink does have a few restrictions. It will only ever come

:13:38. > :13:41.in black and at the moment it is not good enough quality to be used in

:13:42. > :13:45.printers. The company is using it to artists who are finding their own

:13:46. > :13:50.uses for it. Painting and screenprinting, for example, for use

:13:51. > :13:57.on clothes and bags. If the idea catches on, users would expect to

:13:58. > :14:04.remove the exhaust pipe device, called black ink, as often as every

:14:05. > :14:07.15 days, depending on how all or dirty their diesel engines are.

:14:08. > :14:15.That's about three or four minutes of Redding. -- revving. Once we have

:14:16. > :14:21.the scale we plan to install these so-called banks in multiple

:14:22. > :14:25.locations, to be run by the people or our own staff. Even in the

:14:26. > :14:29.shorter term the sorties to replace these carbon banks in business

:14:30. > :14:32.headquarters and lorry depots, where large numbers of vehicles are

:14:33. > :14:37.centralised anyway. While the ink may only have limited uses at

:14:38. > :14:41.present, the company insists it is still better to put the carbon to

:14:42. > :14:44.good use rather than just collect it and stop it. There are many

:14:45. > :14:51.technologies that have captured pollution in one way or another, but

:14:52. > :14:53.if you don't recycle it you are actually leaving it for the future

:14:54. > :15:09.generations. Love is in the air in India. It's

:15:10. > :15:13.reckoned there are 10 million weddings here every year. And as in

:15:14. > :15:18.many aspects of Indian life, religion often directs the dating

:15:19. > :15:21.game. The country's online matchmakers have traditionally put

:15:22. > :15:31.faith at the forefront as well. But now there's a new crop of dating...

:15:32. > :15:36.That's agnostic. Tinder has reported rapid growth here. It matches people

:15:37. > :15:40.based on proximity but doesn't ask about belief. It's not the only

:15:41. > :15:46.dating service where faith is slipping down the priority list. A

:15:47. > :15:50.single mingle in one of Delhi's most romantic spots. These love seekers

:15:51. > :15:54.have been handpicked based on a range of factors. They're

:15:55. > :15:59.open-minded about religion, but it's still clearly a biggie. I do not see

:16:00. > :16:05.religion as a barrier. When I talk about any kind of connection,

:16:06. > :16:09.friendship, professional connection, even... Marriage for that matter but

:16:10. > :16:15.I'm not sure that swat everyone in India would agree to. We don't

:16:16. > :16:18.necessarily mind about the religion but we don't want to hassle

:16:19. > :16:24.ourselves and has all our parents because it's going to be a big

:16:25. > :16:27.thing. Some dating entrepreneurs believe tech ultimately challenges

:16:28. > :16:31.religion. We know so much about people that we're actually able to

:16:32. > :16:35.serve you profiles of people we believe would be compatible with you

:16:36. > :16:39.and that does not include necessarily religion or cast, but it

:16:40. > :16:46.includes much more foundational human levels. That is the beauty of

:16:47. > :16:54.technology. Some areas of India have reported big rises in interfaith

:16:55. > :16:56.marriages. So how has the country's religious communities responded?

:16:57. > :16:59.Catholics make up a tiny minority here and church leaders are worried,

:17:00. > :17:02.particularly about young women who convert to their husband's

:17:03. > :17:07.belligerent and abandon Catholicism. But the church has developed a

:17:08. > :17:12.secret weapon, their own dating website. The unique selling point?

:17:13. > :17:17.Well, honestly. No mass arching your dating profile here because you'll

:17:18. > :17:24.have to go to church to register and get your picture taken -- massaging.

:17:25. > :17:28.The dedication in terms of education qualifications is stricter so we put

:17:29. > :17:32.that together and once that's in place, the website will probably go

:17:33. > :17:37.live and you would have opportunities for young people to

:17:38. > :17:42.find an alliance online. But what about the majority religious group?

:17:43. > :17:46.One of Hinduism's most high-profile branches says they have no problem

:17:47. > :17:50.with interfaith dating, it's the technology they're concerned about.

:17:51. > :17:55.They have some blunt advice for love hungry teens, and it might not prove

:17:56. > :18:03.popular. Try to avoid mobiles, try to avoid mobiles. Everyone has to

:18:04. > :18:08.remember, you know, how he wants to lead his life. Are you going to talk

:18:09. > :18:15.romantically to half a dozen people and then tried to fish out which is

:18:16. > :18:19.better? That is not good, you know? Whatever time available for you for

:18:20. > :18:26.your conversation and entertainment and understanding, education, you

:18:27. > :18:30.have to make the list of priorities. Whatever the religion it is clear

:18:31. > :18:34.technology is causing some seismic changes. And in a country obsessed

:18:35. > :18:40.with matchmaking and tech, even the young are struggling to keep up. A

:18:41. > :18:44.series of plays staged in Mumbai tackle the thorny subject of modern

:18:45. > :18:48.dating, and one of the writers reckon religious influence is here

:18:49. > :18:53.to stay and for some pretty basic reasons. Most of these guys in the

:18:54. > :18:57.city live with their parents. If I want to get somebody home to live

:18:58. > :19:04.with my mother and father, her tastes and ideas should match to

:19:05. > :19:10.that of my mother and father. They have their differences. If he cooks

:19:11. > :19:14.meat every day, my parents wouldn't like her at all because they don't

:19:15. > :19:17.eat meat, they would just keep fighting over who is in the kitchen

:19:18. > :19:23.the whole time and that becomes a headache for me. Religion,

:19:24. > :19:28.technology and romance. Three forces that aren't going away any time

:19:29. > :19:43.soon. Question is, can they all just learn to get along?

:19:44. > :19:48.Living in the developing world means living with the paupers Belletti of

:19:49. > :19:52.developing particular health problems. But there are many

:19:53. > :19:59.diseases that can affect everyone, rich and poor. -- possibility. This

:20:00. > :20:04.is your hospital? I am a hair, the head of this breast cancer screening

:20:05. > :20:14.area and this is our outpatient department. This is the GC cardio

:20:15. > :20:17.Groth room, this is our x-ray department. Breast cancer is now the

:20:18. > :20:22.most fatal cancer among women worldwide and it's the same here --

:20:23. > :20:26.ECG. The problem in India is it's often not spotted early enough with

:20:27. > :20:33.more than 60% of the women diagnosed here at stages three or four. I've

:20:34. > :20:38.come to the women's and Children's Hospital in Mumbai to find out why,

:20:39. > :20:43.and also to see something new. A low-cost device that could aid early

:20:44. > :20:45.breast cancer detection. Most of the women, they don't go to have a

:20:46. > :21:20.mammogram... Mammogram devices are of course

:21:21. > :21:29.expensive, and taking one, plus a skilled operator to remind areas, is

:21:30. > :21:35.impractical. This Doctor's hospital is one of those using a breast exam

:21:36. > :21:39.that works in a very different way. Instead of using x-rays like

:21:40. > :21:43.mammograms do, it has 16 sensors that vibrate and collect pressure

:21:44. > :21:48.data as it's moved around the breast. Any tumours, which are

:21:49. > :21:51.stiffer than normal tissue, will register on the accompanying app and

:21:52. > :21:57.any areas of concern can then be referred for further examination.

:21:58. > :22:01.It's this portability that grab the attention of the Minister for

:22:02. > :22:06.medical education, who's helped to fund the breast exam programme.

:22:07. > :22:11.TRANSLATION: On the government level we have installed these machines in

:22:12. > :22:15.all the medical colleges for women to come and get checked for breast

:22:16. > :22:20.cancer from various parts of the state. We also plan to send this

:22:21. > :22:24.machine to other places like civil hospitals and medical colleges. With

:22:25. > :22:28.this machine we have been carrying out screenings in villages,

:22:29. > :22:31.townships and cities and plan to cover the whole of the state of

:22:32. > :22:34.Maharashtra. The ones who are affected are to be brought to Mumbai

:22:35. > :22:52.and Pune, thus saving many lives. This is the device. What surprised

:22:53. > :22:56.me is how gentle it feels. So these are tiny vibrations it's giving out.

:22:57. > :23:01.That gentle vibration is all that's needed to detect lesions as small as

:23:02. > :23:05.three millimetres, that's far better than the three centimetre lesions

:23:06. > :23:10.present in late stage breast cancer. And achieving that level of accuracy

:23:11. > :23:16.has been the real innovation here. It's a tiny sensor that when given a

:23:17. > :23:20.little bit of power can create these things on the breast and inherently

:23:21. > :23:24.that's why it's different to mammograms, which uses x-rays. But

:23:25. > :23:29.is this better than mammography? I think we have a long way to prove

:23:30. > :23:34.that it is better than mammography. We're not there yet. It is already

:23:35. > :23:39.creating access where mammography is not able to reach, so in that sense

:23:40. > :23:47.there is no competition between the two modalities. The breast exam does

:23:48. > :23:50.prescreening and identifies those at risk and mammography can provide a

:23:51. > :23:55.diagnostic affirmative answer as to whether the woman needs to be moved

:23:56. > :23:59.upwards. Our goal is to provide this as a standard of care solution to

:24:00. > :24:03.all the developing countries struggling in the same way. That's

:24:04. > :24:08.it for Click in India for the moment at least. We've had an absolutely

:24:09. > :24:11.fascinating time here and you can see plenty more photos we've taken

:24:12. > :24:16.around and about the place on Twitter at:

:24:17. > :24:17.Thanks for watching and we'll see you soon.