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    India recently launched a spacecraft to Mars for $75 million, just a fraction of the $671 million cost for NASA's similar Maven mission. India's low-cost approach and ability to achieve so much with limited resources has drawn attention. An aerospace scientist praised the mission as a triumph of low-cost Indian engineering that establishes the country as the most cost-effective globally for advanced technologies. While smaller, India's Mars satellite carries instruments to detect methane, a sign of life, and demonstrates the nation's skilled engineering on a restrictive budget.

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    India recently launched a spacecraft to Mars for $75 million, just a fraction of the $671 million cost for NASA's similar Maven mission. India's low-cost approach and ability to achieve so much with limited resources has drawn attention. An aerospace scientist praised the mission as a triumph of low-cost Indian engineering that establishes the country as the most cost-effective globally for advanced technologies. While smaller, India's Mars satellite carries instruments to detect methane, a sign of life, and demonstrates the nation's skilled engineering on a restrictive budget.

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    India recently launched a spacecraft to Mars for $75 million, just a fraction of the $671 million cost for NASA's similar Maven mission. India's low-cost approach and ability to achieve so much with limited resources has drawn attention. An aerospace scientist praised the mission as a triumph of low-cost Indian engineering that establishes the country as the most cost-effective globally for advanced technologies. While smaller, India's Mars satellite carries instruments to detect methane, a sign of life, and demonstrates the nation's skilled engineering on a restrictive budget.

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    BANGALORE, India While Indias recent launch of a spacecraft to Mars was a remarkable

    feat in its own right, it is the $75 million missions thrifty approach to time, money and materials
    that is getting attention.
    Just days after the launch of Indias Mangalyaan satellite, NASA sent off its own Mars mission,
    five years in the making, named Maven. Its cost: $671 million. The budget of Indias Mars
    mission, by contrast, was just three-quarters of the $100 million that Hollywood spent on last
    years space-based hit, Gravity.
    The mission is a triumph of low-cost Indian engineering, said Roddam Narasimha, an
    aerospace scientist and a professor at Bangalores Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced
    Scientific Research.
    By excelling in getting so much out of so little, we are establishing ourselves as the most costeffective center globewide for a variety of advanced technologies, said Mr. Narasimha.
    Indias 3,000-pound Mars satellite carries five instruments that will measure methane gas, a
    marker of life on the planet. Maven (for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), weighs
    nearly twice as much but carries eight heavy-duty instruments that will investigate what went
    wrong in the Martian climate, which could have once supported life.

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