As Chandrayaan-3 gently descended onto the uncharted lunar south pole on August 23, 2023, mission control at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) erupted in celebration. But far from the jubilant engineers and the blinking consoles in Bengaluru, the ripples were felt in foreign ministries across the globe — from Washington to Paris, and beyond. India had just become the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, joining an elite club of spacefaring nations.
The triumph was scientific, but the implications were profoundly strategic. It signalled, unmistakably, that India’s space programme is no longer just about rockets and research; it is now a central pillar of its foreign policy
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