9. India
Points – 10
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the country’s space agency. Established in 1969 as ISRO, the agency was named INCOSPAR since 1962. Its current budget sits around $1.2 billion, which helps quite a bit in all its projects.
The Indian agency has already sent a lunar orbiter back in 2008, as well as a Mars orbiter, trying to find out more about the Red Planet. Unlike other countries, India doesn’t want to compete to be the first to land on some other planet, or some other such project, but it retains its age-old mission to develop space technology and see how it best applies to national tasks.
