India is the primary nation to realize a south-pole touchdown on the moon.
“India is on the moon! A true testament of ISROs capabilities and India as a builder of technology for the world and beyond. A pivotal moment for India and its next phase of space odyssey and helping humanity,” Speciale Invest managing companion Vishesh Rajaram instructed ET.
Rajaram added that the tender touchdown was an inspirational second for the deeptech- and spacetech-focussed enterprise capital agency in addition to different younger startups within the area, to construct from India for the world.
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“This marks a pivotal second for each the Indian Space ecosystem and the worldwide area neighborhood. The challenges of area exploration are immense and unforgiving, and attaining a tender landing on one other celestial physique amplifies these complexities, now we have seen that with the latest Luna 25 Mission,” Peak XV Partners-backed Digantara founder and CEO Anirudh Sharma told ET.
Pranav Pai, founding partner of 3one4 Capital, said ISRO’s achievement with Chandrayaan-3 will be spoken “about for perpetuity, and this will inspire many more of India’s best students to become part of the technology revolution in the country.”
“We look forward to a deeper investment in leading indigenous technology from here, and more inspiration for us all building tech in India,” Pai added.
“The ability to harness resources from the moon would be a gamechanger for humanity, considering it is almost 20 times more efficient to tap resources from moon than earth for building a thriving Low Earth Orbit (LEO) economy, especially the potential resources of the south pole of the moon which is yet unexplored,” Skyroot Aerospace co-founder and CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana, told ET.
Chandana said the lunar south pole is of particular interest to space agencies because of its unexplored resources. “These regions most likely have ice, built over several billion years deposited by meteorites, and kept intact from solar activity. It could unravel hidden mysteries of the solar system which lay hidden for over four billion years… the south pole offers scientific benefit, the urgency to get there is obvious in the new space race,” he added.
Agnikul Cosmos founder and CEO Srinath Ravichandran told ET, “as a community, the moon we see tonight may be a tad different if all goes well. There may be one Indian rover roaming its surface.”
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com