2023-08-23 22:05:00
Four years after a first failure, India joins the United States, China and the Soviet Union in the short list of powers that have shown themselves capable of carrying out a controlled moon landing.
But this Indian space mission will have cost less than 75 million dollars, a budget much lower than the space programs of its competitors, in part thanks to the many engineers trained in the country.
Enough to make India an attractive player in the space industry. The country aims to multiply by five, by 2040, its weight in the world market. One thinks of the putting into orbit of satellites and of all the Indian suppliers of electronic and technical modules which have also jumped on the stock market.
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This mission is also part of a renewed general interest in the Moon, since no less than six robotic missions are planned in the coming months.
Japan hopes to become the fifth lunar power, while the United States and China have planned manned missions by the end of the decade.
They are targeting the lunar South Pole, the region where the Indian mission has just landed, an area as large as the Paris region which could contain water and, perhaps, energy or mining resources. We are talking about long-term prospects, but with this first success, New Delhi intends to stay in the race.
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