Why India aspires to reach the moon?

Hani Al - Dhalia

Despite the failure of the Indian spacecraft Chandrian from landing on the moon, it is the second attempt of India there, and this in itself is a great achievement for a third world country with poor people and perhaps economically destitute, to take such a pioneering step, and if it succeeded to do so Herself as the fourth country after America, Russia and China landed on the surface of our closest neighbor, the moon, that dark and arid world, and she would have told the world that we are a superpower and we have a foot in space as you.

Of course, its success is a challenge and a success in the existential conflict between it and its Muslim neighbor, Pakistan, which has never contested nuclear rivalry, but has overcome it militarily to this day.

The arrival of India to the moon carries with it several scientific and political matters, some of which are reviewed below.

What Chandrian?
Chandrian's name, derived from "Chand" which means the moon in Hindi, means heading to the moon, is the second vehicle launched by India to the moon, it was preceded by Chandrian (1) in 2008, and orbited the moon in order to study the presence of water molecules on its surface, and tried to land It but failed.

Chandrian II, the lowest-cost space flight to the moon (only $ 150 million) compared to the US, Russia and China, is a three-stage flight that was intended to reach and orbit the moon and then land on the surface and travel by vehicle.

However, Indian technology did not yet report the progress and experience in doing so, causing it to lose contact with the Vikram landing probe (after the name of the founder of the Indian Space Research Organization) at the last minute of the voyage, thereby failing that part of the voyage, leaving the orbiter spinning around the moon for a year. To come as planned.

The target trip
Perhaps the most important goals that India aspires for its second attempt to reach the moon is to set a world record as the fourth country to put its flag on its surface, which is not an easy, simple and possible only for those countries that have an ambitious program in which all the efforts of the state and its scientific institutions unite. Away from outsourcing foreign expertise as well as buying it entirely as some third world countries do.

India's scientific and technical policy, as its astronomers and astronomers have stated, is based on local industry and Indian hands without buying it from abroad. Many of its scientists have participated in developed countries in their space programs, thus gaining their experience and bringing it home.

Because India or the Indian subcontinent represents the second largest human momentum on the planet after China, a project of this importance must tickle the feelings of its politicians, especially as access to the moon is an advanced stage in the manufacture and development of missiles and sending satellites to orbits around the Earth. This technology is available to India as its politicians can think of this bold and powerful move.

The abundance of human resources, including scientists, technicians and specialists, as well as the political will, popular incubator and budget, are enough to advance the country towards such a large goal, placing it in the ranks of developed nations that will once cherish its foothold in space, a metaphor for power and immunity on the ground.

The scientific goal India would have achieved if it had landed on the moon was to set the record as the first country to reach the south pole of the moon (70 degrees south latitude), which none of the other three countries have done.

The arrival of that remote spot on the moon - if it had happened - would have facilitated the mission of the US spacecraft Artemis, which NASA plans to send in 2024, near the spot chosen by India.

This is because it will get new and valuable results, especially if we know that the landing site is near the Antarctic Antarctic barely reached by the remains of sunlight, which makes its lunar craters buzz the fingerprints of the solar system on the formation of 4,500 million years ago.

Lost hope
With the loss of India's Vikram landing probe, its dream was lost to America's next plans in 2024, but of course it will not return from scratch. These two vehicles have come a long way towards the settlement of space, which is not yet reached by any Arab or Islamic country, but most of them Unfortunately, he does not have university plans to teach space and astronomy science, or even unify the vision of the crescent and the beginnings of the lunar months, as well as the establishment of an Arab space agency for which he fought for more than twenty years, many Arab astronomers, led by Engineer Khalil Consul, the founder of the Arab Space and Astronomy Federation We love him before he and his fellow dream come true It seems to him a glimmer of hope on the horizon, especially in light of the complex political circumstances that Thiaha our Arab nation, even if it will come one day to the Arabs once a foothold in space where crowding other nations.