India is on the Moon, Indians are over the Moon. Such is the delight and pride in India becoming the fourth nation after the US, Russia and China to land a craft intact on the Moon that it will materially change attitudes towards educational choices. It will boost national self-confidence across the board, including in tackling scientific and technological challenges and in taking new strides in sophisticated design and manufacturing.
Some areas of direct benefit from Chandrayaan are obvious. Satellite and rocket technologies are in the spotlight. This has strategic as well as diverse commercial benefits – given the geopolitical flux and paradigm shifts in the use of information and artificial intelligence.
Satellites are key to strategic intelligence and military capability. Satellites with synthetic aperture radars are self-illuminating. This means they emit visible or invisible lights that beam down on Earth, receive and process the signals that bounce back and produce actionable intelligence, peer through clouds and fog and smoke, observe at night with infra-red light, and even see to certain depths below the ground.
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