Bangalore: The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) may have sparked a debate on ‘space race' between India and China, but former ISRO boss G Madhavan Nair says Beijing has already surged forward and is on course to have an upper hand in the field globally.
“I think if somebody says that we can race with China and catch up with them.....at the moment....we have lost the game very badly,” he told PTI here.
According to him, India and China were “almost equal” five years ago and, except in the area of manned mission, “we had everything in pace”.
“In fact, in some of the technologies we were ahead of China, especially in space communications and remote sensing,” he said.
