2023-08-21 22:29:15
The Indian landing module Chandrayaan-3 (here, August 5) will attempt to land on the south pole of the Moon on Wednesday. ISRO/via REUTERS
DECRYPTION – While a Russian mission has just failed and India is attempting a moon landing this Wednesday, it is between the United States and China that the battle is raging to set foot on the star from here to 2030.
The Russian Luna-25 probe was supposed to land on the Moon on Monday August 21, but it finally crashed into our satellite over the weekend. This failure risks weighing heavily on the future of the other lunar programs of Roscomos, the Russian space agency, but above all it has dampened the hopes of many Russians, starting with their president, Vladimir Putin, to regain the prestige of yesteryear. , when the then USSR was competing with the United States for the conquest of space. Returning to the Moon may seem trivial to neophytes more than fifty years after the first man set foot there. Yet the reconquest of the Moon is in reality a major geopolitical issue and the failure of this mission has just confirmed that Russia was no longer really in the competition.
“Let’s be honest, it’s rather the success of this mission that would have been a real surprise”comments Francis Rocard, head of solar system exploration programs at the Center…
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