00:00Pramod just hold on, V Narayanan, the ISRO chief is joining us live right now here on
00:05India Today.
00:06Sir, what we saw was absolutely stunning.
00:09Please tell us as a scientist yourself, how do you look at the big occasion that we all
00:15witnessed at 3.28 Indian Standard Time?
00:18First of all, I would like to say we are so excited.
00:26My officer on special duty in Delhi, Mr Rajiv, we both, we are so excited, more we are watching
00:39the entire progress without even sleeping one second.
00:44That is the type of excitement what is there.
00:47And we have to understand, appreciate everything and it is a phenomenal thing and outstanding
00:54thing what happened in the scientific community, scientific era, science and technology development
01:00area.
01:01I don't consider the X country, Y country, I don't consider, but as far as the scientific
01:09community is concerned, what happened is a phenomenal thing.
01:12And I was, yesterday also I told, you know, I'm 100% confident madam will be safely brought
01:21and locked down because we were continuously keeping watch of the mission, how it got de-locked,
01:28how it is moving, being a propulsion expert, I also can understand and appreciate how the
01:36propulsion system is working.
01:39And then we were so much excited to understand the way the mission happened.
01:49And then finally, I'm extremely happy to see all the four astronauts smiling.
01:58And in fact, we are, we are also smiling to be frank, we have a team working on in the
02:05similar game.
02:06I think you can understand and appreciate us, so really it is a really good achievement
02:15for the scientific community, that much only I can tell.
02:19There is so much, you know, that we saw happen in terms of technology, in terms of science,
02:25every, it was just so complex that so many things had to fall in place and every process,
02:30every step that we saw unfold was so intricate in its own way.
02:34If you could tell us from the various sequence of events that we saw unfold, which was, which
02:40was that one part or that one step that you were the most nervous about from a scientific
02:47standpoint and were the most elated then, after it panned out the way that it had to?
02:54I will, I will explain you one simple example.
03:01Hello.
03:02Please go on.
03:04I will simply explain one example.
03:07Yesterday, we had one mission called Space Recovery Experiment Mission, hope you are
03:13aware.
03:13Yes, sir.
03:15You know, the object was from the space, then it was brought and, I mean, gradually it came
03:21in autonomous mode, finally we landed in the right place.
03:25And I used to tell one example.
03:27Assume in Delhi, somebody is dropped two kilometers away from his house and the eyes are closed
03:35and he is asked to go to his house.
03:37And how many of us will write directions, we will go, walk and go to the house?
03:43I don't think 99% of people cannot reach.
03:45I'm sure.
03:47And here, there is the object coming from space in an autonomous way, everything is
03:52inbuilt through a set of hardware, software, and guidance, navigation, so many things have
03:59to work in a chronological way.
04:01And finally, it has to come and flash down.
04:03And in fact, we, we, we, I, as a technical manager, I understand the complexity.
04:08We have accomplished a lot of missions like this.
04:11And similar thing only happened today also.
04:16Yesterday, 10.35, the system got dedocked, then everything through a set of hardware,
04:21software, through a set of sensors.
04:25For making this, there is inertial system, there is a propulsion system, there are health
04:31monitoring systems, then, then a set of so many things.
04:36Of course, that has not helped in later aspects.
04:39And everything has to work in a synchronized way, autonomous way.
04:44And gradually, it has to come down, travel, travel, and monitor, and everything is there
04:49immediately, correct, and then bring it down.
04:52And then it is done.
04:53And for me, to be frank, I'm so happy they are safely brought down.
04:58But otherwise, I understand the complexity involved in this technology.
05:02Because for a system to work in a chronological and synchronized way, the entire system has
05:08to work, which includes, for example, one system.
05:11When it comes down, there will be a lot of heat flux generation on the outer surface.
05:16If anything happens, you know it.
05:18And then that system has worked well.
05:20It has to work well.
05:22Then, of course, the entire system, like inertial system, it has to capture entire orientation,
05:28what is happening in three-dimensional domain.
05:32It has to measure the entirety.
05:34Then the autonomous system, it has to give command to the propulsion system to correct
05:39in the required thing.
05:40Like steering our car, you know?
05:42When you have to go from Delhi to, for example, Agra, you have to steer accordingly, depending
05:47upon this one.
05:48So in the autonomous way, it has to steer and go.
05:52To be frank, work-wise, I understand the end-to-end, I can understand the mission.
05:57But then, happy part of it, when it is done solely, we also do some other professional
06:03job.
06:04And we have done a couple of experiments.
06:07Mars Orbiter mission, when it has gone 68 crore kilometers, please understand, 68 crore
06:13kilometers, we have taken Mars Orbiter.
06:16And finally, by restarting again, after 295 days, we have captured.
06:22It's not a small achievement.
06:23Probably today you are seeing a phenomenal achievement by Bharat, by Bharat education
06:30system, by our own people.
06:33And so I can understand the complexity involved, the technology involved.
06:38Here, same thing, similar thing has happened.
06:41That happened over a period of 295 days, traveling there.
06:44And recently we have completed Aditya Ilon, 15 lakh kilometers to go, and finally captured.
06:51So it's all technology intensive.
06:54We used to say a simple term called rocket science.
06:58Rocket science, 100 percent, it should be perfectly done.
07:01And here it is yet another example what has happened.
07:05So for me, I was quite, I think yesterday also, I hope you remember, I talked with you,
07:10I'm 100 percent confident.
07:12That 100 percent confidence is not just like that when seeing, observing the performance
07:16of a system.
07:17And for me, the happy part of it is Sunita Williams madam's face.
07:24I saw smiling face.
07:26And when I saw smiling face, I was also smiling, even though we didn't sleep even a single
07:31second.
07:32And it was an exciting, happy moment.
07:39Right.
07:40Very quickly, sir, before I let you go, a quick word on Sunita Williams, her resilience,
07:47and where does this take her legacy in your view?
07:55Say, as far as ISRO is concerned, today ISRO is under the leadership of our prime minister,
08:03most respected prime minister, who is leading us from the front.
08:10And he's giving outstanding guidelines and excellent direction.
08:17And under his guidance, the entire team is motivated, and we are working in a fantastic
08:22way.
08:24And we take lessons from all, and to accomplish our mission successfully.
08:32And lessons, whenever you do a test, whatever happens, we don't consider anything as a
08:37failure or setback.
08:38Everything is an opportunity to improve our knowledge.
08:41Is it clear?
08:42Whenever you do a test, whenever you have a small setback happen, we don't consider
08:47it as a failure.
08:48We consider it as a great opportunity, as a learning ground.
08:52And we learn things.
08:53And put the house in order.
08:56And so that's what.
08:57So we will absorb everything.
09:01We have, ISRO team is also a very smart and intelligent team.
09:04And a lot of things you have to understand from others, understand from us, and put the
09:10system in order, so that our mission will be a perfect and perfect successful mission.
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