Pretty old news for me, I first heard of it (and I reckon ISRO doesn't make announcements if its not already sure) after the chandrayaan mission a year or so ago.<p>But what is funny is the view of people towards ISRO's space missions. See a lot of trolls would start talking about poverty, malnutrition, etc etc in India, whenever such news is announced.<p>The two point they don't see is:<p>1. Technology is not a object that you can go out and buy, investment always comes at price and a risk, but you never know what you will find, and what are its applications, if you think of it otherwise.<p>2. Similarly, India, is just another country, racing towards socio-economic development, and people are not happy with meeting 10 year old benchmarks. So, when we will achieve certain standards, others (developed countries) would have already moved ahead, and in this race we would be both driving at same speed. This is where scientific discovery/research comes in. Until and unless we device a way to cut short the chase, we will never come par with the developed countries.<p>This is what estonia understands, being a african country, its both behind, developed countries like US, and developing ones like India. So it recently decided to go 2 steps ahead, and go fully electric for its car industry. Sadly, which is something India doesn't understand. But you get the point.<p>What is being spent on India's space program, is only a fraction, compared to what is being spent on these real problems people are talking about, so stop complaining or go back to stone age!