By Paramita Tripathi
Ambassador of India to Kuwait
“The question is no longer if India innovates, but who will innovate with India.”
– Emmanuel Macron, President of France (Mumbai, February 2026)
India made history on 23 August 2023 as the first nation to successfully land a spacecraft near the unexplored lunar south pole. The success of ambitious projects such as the Chandrayaan lunar mission, the Mangalyaan Mars mission, and the Aditya L1 solar mission, the 2024-2025 SpaDeX docking experiments, and cost-effective satellite…