"Jugaad" has entered management textbooks as a word synonymous with out-of-the-box creative solutions. Jugaad solutions to complex problems often come from totally unrelated fields.
To my mind one of the most extreme and innovative examples was when the APPLE (Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment) had to be taken out for antenna-range tests.
ISRO could have used padded trucks for transporting the satellite, but the fact is that the metallic bodies of trucks were interfering with the antennae.
Bullock carts, being made out of wood, presented an ingenious solution. So that is how the APPLE satellite was transported, resulting in this famous photograph, in 1981, of a satellite atop a bullock cart.
http://www.livemint.com/Multimedia/BxbJDpkIU1P9QirjJlt0PO/Isros-long-journey-from-bullock-cart-to-MOM.html
In 1963, a similar "Jugaad" had caught the world's attention. A technician carried the sounding rocket, from the assembly line to the launching pad at Thumba in Kerala. These rockets were small, weighing only a few kilos, so it was possible to do so in those days.
It is this frugal and innovative spirit, and never-say-die attitude that has enabled ISRO to reach out for seemingly impossible goals over the last fifty years. In the eighties, it launched SLV-3 which weighed 17 tons, and placed the satellite Rohini in orbit, which weighed 40 kgs.
And today we are proud of its Mars mission "Mangalayaan" which is supposed to have cost ISRO about seventy three million dollars, a little under the cost of most commercial airplanes!
To my mind one of the most extreme and innovative examples was when the APPLE (Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment) had to be taken out for antenna-range tests.
ISRO could have used padded trucks for transporting the satellite, but the fact is that the metallic bodies of trucks were interfering with the antennae.
Bullock carts, being made out of wood, presented an ingenious solution. So that is how the APPLE satellite was transported, resulting in this famous photograph, in 1981, of a satellite atop a bullock cart.
http://www.livemint.com/Multimedia/BxbJDpkIU1P9QirjJlt0PO/Isros-long-journey-from-bullock-cart-to-MOM.html
In 1963, a similar "Jugaad" had caught the world's attention. A technician carried the sounding rocket, from the assembly line to the launching pad at Thumba in Kerala. These rockets were small, weighing only a few kilos, so it was possible to do so in those days.
It is this frugal and innovative spirit, and never-say-die attitude that has enabled ISRO to reach out for seemingly impossible goals over the last fifty years. In the eighties, it launched SLV-3 which weighed 17 tons, and placed the satellite Rohini in orbit, which weighed 40 kgs.
And today we are proud of its Mars mission "Mangalayaan" which is supposed to have cost ISRO about seventy three million dollars, a little under the cost of most commercial airplanes!
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