Why does India want to be a space power? Chandrayaan-3 and the politics of India’s space programme
With its Chandrayaan-3 mission, India has become the fourth nation to land on the moon. Dimitrios Stroikos has been exploring the complexities around the international politics of space, with a specific focus on China and India as rising powers, and the connections between power, technology and modernity. He sets out how India’s space programme has developed, and why its latest mission is largely a reflection of its great power aspirations.