Both India and Russia have national interests in successful landings and in claiming the historic first at stake.
For Russia, the moonshot, which has been planned for decades, will test the nation’s growing independence in space after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine severed nearly all of its space ties with the West.
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has said the Luna-25 mission would spend five to seen days in lunar orbit before descending to one of three possible landing sites near the pole. For India, a successful moon landing would mark its emergence as a space power at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is looking to spur investment in private space launches and related satellite-based businesses.Since 2020, when India opened to private launches, the number of space startups has more than doubled. Late last year, Skyroot Aerospace, whose investors include Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, launched India’s first privately built rocket.
Indian officials have privately played down the race with Russia to land first, saying there was no competition.
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