India Breaks Space Monopoly Of Great Powers

News Desk

New Delhi: India breaks the space monopolies of America, Russia and China by successfully landing its spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 in the moon’s south pole region, making it the first country to do so.

India is the only fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon, joining the erstwhile Soviet Union, United States and China.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3

— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023

European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher has called the landing of Chandrayaan-3 and “incredible” event.
“What a way to demonstrate new technologies and achieve India’s first soft landing on another celestial body. Well done, I am thoroughly impressed,” Josef added.

This is an enormous achievement for a South Asian emerging superpower. As a result, India will join the elite group of countries in the space. This is on top of India already being a major nuclear power and one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, despite some huge internal challenges, including major human rights issues both on the mainland and in Kashmir.

India is also a major power in the BRICS, a new block of major growing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)). All the BRICS countries are already part of the G20, the world’s major economies.

BRICS is being seen as an emerging geo-political revival of the informal Group of Seven (G7), the world’s advanced economies, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union; notably, China is not a member.

India will also be signing a major trade agreement with the U.K.