Team Indus
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Aerospace Research Team Not For-Profit Organisation Active competitor in Google Lunar X Prize |
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| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founders | Rahul Narayan, Indranil Chakraborty, Sameer Joshi, Dilip Chabria, Julius Amrit |
| Headquarters | Bangalore, India |
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Number of locations
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Delhi, Bangalore |
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Key people
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Rahul Narayan, Indranil Chakraborty, Sameer Joshi, Dilip Chabria, Julius Amrit |
| Website | www |
Aerospace Research Team
Not For-Profit Organisation
Team Indus is a for-profit organisation headquartered in Bangalore, India. The team is led by Rahul Narayan, a Delhi-based IT professional. The team of professionals from various backgrounds science, technology, finance and media is the only Indian team leading the charge of India to win the Google Lunar X Prize mission announced in year 2007. The mission often referred to as "Moon 2.0" is a challenge that calls for participating teams to design and land a robot on the Moon. The Robot is required to travel more than 500 meters on the lunar surface and send feedback to earth. The deadline of the competition is December 31, 2017. The Indian entrant - TeamIndus will be competing against 29 teams from 17 countries to win the US$20 million grand prize and additional prize worth US$5 million. The team raised $35M in December 2014 from investors including Subrata Mitra & Shekhar Kirani of Accel Partners, Sharad Sharma, former Yahoo India R&D head, Vivek Raghavan, chief product manager of UIDAI (the Aadhaar project), Pallaw Sharma, director of analytics at Microsoft, serial entrepreneur Bala Parthasarthy, and part of the AngelPrime angel investor group, Sunil Kalra, entrepreneur & investor, Paras Chopra and Pallav Nadhani.
In January 2015 the TeamIndus were awarded $1 million for having successfully completed a test of their landing system. It was among five out of 29 teams to have been awarded for clearing a specified test.
Axiom Research Labs Pvt. Ltd., the private company set up with the primary mission of landing a spacecraft on the moon before December 2017, is based in Bengaluru. The company's office is minimalistic and betrays no external signs of the nature of its business. The office is divided into “Bhaskara Block”, “Aryabhatta Block” and “CV Raman Block”. Axiom Research Labs employs nearly 85 engineers and around 12 retired ISRO scientists, who are part of TeamIndus - the only team from India to qualify for the Google Lunar X Prize.
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