For new lunar collaboration, look to India and Japan

Representatives from ISRO and JAXA met in May 2025 for a Technical Interface Meeting about the Chandrayaan-5/LUPEX mission at ISRO Headquarters in Bengaluru. Credit: ISRO

The renewed interest in the moon can arguably be traced back to the 2009 discovery of water ice on the lunar surface. Much of the narrative in the intervening decade and a half has been set to a background score of a military drumroll slowly gathering pace. The competing visions vis-à-vis lunar exploration and exploitation […]

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