2/29/2024 0 Comments Lunar landing article![]() Japanese daily Nikkei appreciated the mission by calling it a 'historic leap'. India has become the first country to reach the moon's uncharted south pole, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to claim victory in a new global space race, The Independent newspaper wrote.ĭeutsche Welle, the German state-owned media, commended India for being 'able to compete at the international level and part of the big league even in its space programme'. Sticking a moon landing is about the best pitch India's high-tech sector could have wanted for its readiness to partner in international space projects, Sky News said in the article titled 'India joins the exclusive club after successful moon landing - with innovative, low-cost spacecraft'. Leaders in space like the USA, Europe and Japan are now looking to the private sector to explore and commercialise space. So, it is somewhat surprising that it is relative newcomer India that got there first, giving the country an unexpected head start in the hunt for water and other resources, she said.Ĭalling it a huge triumph for Indian scientists and engineers, Tom Clarke, science and technology editor of Sky News, wrote by its engineers' own admission, Chandrayaan-3 isn't the most sophisticated spacecraft ever built, but they have achieved what other countries (most recently Russia) failed to do with an innovative, low-cost design. Nasa plans to send a rover to the south pole next year with US-based company Astrobotic Technology to measure water ahead of landing astronauts there in 2025 in the Artemis III mission.Ĭhina has also committed to sending astronauts there by the end of the decade, while Russia attempted a soft landing last week, which ended in failure. India has just fired the starting gun on the race for resources on the Moon, Sarah Knapton, science editor, of The Telegraph wrote. "Following their earlier successful orbiters to the moon and Mars, this cements their position as one of the key spacefaring nations and is an impressive scientific and engineering achievement," he said. "This is an exciting moment for Indian space exploration," said Prof Andrew Coates at UCL's Mullard space science laboratory. That ambition will be helped by India being seen as a low-cost provider of space launch services, the paper said. Through foreign investment, India plans to expand its share of the global launch market fivefold over the next decade. Like other countries, India has privatised its rocket launches. ![]() The landing raises India's profile as a spacefaring nation at a crucial time. The landing boosts the prestige of the Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO) less than a week after a Russian probe spun out of control and crashed into the moon's surface. There is more to the achievement than the technical feat. The US hasn't landed anything at the poles on the moon," he said. You've got to get into a polar orbit to release the lander, and nobody has done that before. "Landing at the poles is much more difficult than landing at the equator. That India chose one of the moon's poles as its destination - a tougher prospect than landing near the equator - makes the success that much sweeter, Ian Sample, The Science Editor of The Guardian newspaper wrote in the article headlined 'India's south pole moon landing is big business for global space race'. India is only the fourth country to pull off a controlled landing on the surface, after the US, China and the former Soviet Union. With the success of Chandrayaan-3, India became the second country to land a spacecraft on the moon in the 21st century after China, which has put three landers on the lunar surface since 2013 - including the first to touch down on the moon's far side, CNN said. India's mission has taken on even greater significance since Russia's failed Luna 25 landing attempt. The country's space programme has become one of the world's busiest in its development of exploratory space technology," it said. "Working alongside allies such as the United States and France, India is part of a second wave of emerging space powers. The South Pole region is considered an area of key scientific and strategic interest for spacefaring nations, as scientists believe the region to be home to water ice deposits, it said. Previously, only the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have completed soft landings on the lunar surface," CNN said in the article 'India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon'.Ĭhandrayaan-3's landing site is also closer to the moon's south pole than any other spacecraft in history has ventured. "The mission could cement India's status as a global superpower in space. "Landing on the Moon is far from easy - as Russia's attempt this week highlighted - and many missions have failed, including India's first attempt," she said.
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