India’s Space Program in 2023: Taking Stock
2023 witnessed some rather game-changing updates to India’s space vision.
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The Strategic and Geopolitical Significance of India’s Chandrayaan 3 Lunar Mission
Advertisement India’s Chandrayaan 3 mission has been a focus of discussions across the globe since it landed successfully on the Lunar South Pole on August 23. The timing of the landing had both strategic and geopolitical implications. At the time of the landing, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was attending the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, … Read more
India’s Moon Rover Completes its Lunar Walk
This image provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) taken by Pragyan rover of Vikram lander on Aug. 30, 2023. Credit: Twitter/ISRO Advertisement India’s moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, India’s … Read more
India Makes History; First Country to Touch Down Near Moon’s South Pole Region
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists watch the descent of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon at ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023 Credit: Twitter/ISRO Advertisement India on Wednesday landed a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an unchartered territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of … Read more
The Lunar Race Between India and Russia: What’s at Stake?
Advertisement The end of August is going to be a critical time for space policy, geopolitics, and astropolitics. Later this month, India and Russia will separately attempt the first-ever soft landing on the South Pole of the Moon. All other lunar probes by the United States, the erstwhile Soviet Union, and China have either landed … Read more
India Launches a Lander and Rover to Explore the Moon’s South Pole
Advertisement An Indian spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country’s space agency said. Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, took off from a launch pad … Read more
With Chandrayaan-3 Launch, India Heads for the Moon
Advertisement India launched Chandrayaan-3, its third mission to the Moon, on July 14. It was launched on a LVM3 heavy-lift launch vehicle, named “Bahubali,” from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in southern India. The Chandrayaan-3 will travel for more than a month to land on the surface of the Moon in early August. … Read more