India satellite: Student-made Kalamsat V2 put into orbit

I am really amazed how much people in India are able to achieve without spending tons of money.

India Mars mission costed less then production of a fiction movie "Gravity".

My sister in law needed a cancer cure Herceptine, which is produced by Roche and is rather expensive. It turned out that there is an India company that produces equivalent that is 4 times cheaper. In addition, this company was not some kind of "we will not talk to you little, unimportant moron", but were very helpful even though it was purchase only for one person.

People talk a lot of about China economy growing, etc. doing business over there, but if I was putting my bets, I would choose India in the long run.

Congratulations to all involved. The satellite appears to have been made by Space Kidz India, a Chennai-based space education firm, it only weighs 1.26kg and took 6 days to make for a cost of ~ $17K.

We need as many of these experiments by as many countries as possible. Level the playing field and innovation will come.

Kalamsat seems go be named after A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India and one of the foremost missile technology scientists in the world.

How is the biotech/drug discovery scene in India? There is so much talent there but I wonder if they have enough funding. They could potentially be coming up with lots of cures.