Team Indus Speaks Up: Why Did Indian Startup's Moon Mission Fail?

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  • Published On: January 25, 2018
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On The Buck Stops Here, meet the founder and chief technology officer of Team Indus. India's first space startup had aimed to put an Indian built rover on the surface of the moon in competing for the international Google Lunar XPrize. But in the end, the deadlines proved to be just too difficult and Team Indus had to tell Google Lunar XPrize that they wouldn't make the deadline. To many, this had a lot to do with raising funds. Was Team Indus just too ambitious? Realistically, could a startup hope to achieve so much?

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