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It seems like there's a lot of renewed activity of various nations trying to land on the moon recently. Is this just a rite of passage for a space program? Or
by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
It seems like there's a lot of renewed activity of various nations trying to land on the moon recently. Is this just a rite of passage for a space program? Or is there some other reason? I have to imagine that if there was actually some real benefit then USA would still be sending landers all the time. Curious what the interest is.
- catchnear4321 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program less a rite of passage, more a new wave of activity.
- gsatic 3y agoBack in 2017 ISRO had a record setting 104 satellites deployed on a single launch. Everyone said India would become the goto destination for cheap launches. Since then tens of thousands of satellites have been launched but very few via ISRO. So for whatever reason they totally missed that boat, and maybe their moon/sun/human space flight stuff is some kind of pivot.
- isignal 3y agoWouldn’t say they missed the boat. ISRO did launch some of the OneWeb constellation recently https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace_India_Limited https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace_India_Limited It’s just a slow ramp up. India’s rockets aren’t yet capable pf heavy payloads like SpaceX.