NASA's Lunar Invitation: India's Role in the Moon Base and the NISAR Milestone

The most significant development for India's space program this week is NASA's formal invitation to ISRO to join its ambitious Moon Base programme, a human outpost planned near the Moon's south pole around 2030. This invitation, extended during the ninth India-U.S. Civil Space Joint Working Group meeting, marks a major geopolitical and scientific commitment under the Artemis Accords partnership. The outpost aims to leverage the south pole's long-duration sunlight and...