Just on August 23, 2023, India's Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully made a soft landing on the surface of the moon, becoming the fourth country in the world to achieve this feat and the first to land on the moon's south pole.
Prior to this, Israel, Japan and many other developed countries have made similar attempts, but they all ended in failure
With the continuous improvement of India's comprehensive national strength and the emergence of a large number of middle-class people with a global vision, India's desire to become a world power has become stronger and more confident.
It can even be said that in today's India, the realization of great power status is no longer just the ideal of a few statesmen, it has risen to the level of a national will.
This is one of the reasons why India can rise, and that is because it has a strong national will to rise.
On the other hand, India is clearly the country with the greatest potential to become the number one power in South Asia and the Indian Ocean.
Among the more than 40 countries along the Indian Ocean coast, India is the single largest country in terms of land area, population, resources, economic scale, scientific and technological capabilities, and military strength.
Although the development of modern technology and military technology has greatly changed the mode of warfare, the geographical factor is still of great strategic significance, and India has a favorable and unique geomorphological and strategic environment in the Indian Ocean.
India's land area ranks seventh in the world, but India's arable land area ranks second in the world, in addition to oil, other strategic resources are abundant, and mineral and iron resources are second only to Brazil and Australia, ranking third in the world.
At the current rate of mining, it can even be mined for more than 200 years. Not only that, India also has the world's highest-grade bauxite, with recoverable reserves of about 2.8 billion tons, accounting for 8% of the world's reserves, ranking fifth in the world.
There are also many minerals such as copper ore, copper-zinc ore, manganese ore, coal, etc., India is also one of the most important coal producing countries in the world, with an annual output of 2500 million tons, with reserves of 192 billion tons.
In addition, India has surpassed China in terms of population, and this time the aerospace science and technology have also caught up, and it has indeed made a major breakthrough in the past six months.
The Indian Space Research Agency (ISRI) has successfully completed the mission of the Helios L1 probe to the first Lagrange point from Earth to the Sun, which has attracted widespread attention from the international community.
The Helios L1 probe is India's first solar probe, developed by the Indian Space Research Organization, with a lifespan of 5 years, carrying 7 payloads, and orbiting in the Sun-Earth Lagrange L1 orbit.
The Helios L1 probe is located at the edge of a special Lagrange point between the Moon and the Earth, which is directly facing the rising sunlight and eliminates the obscuring effect of the Earth.
We continue to contribute to the study of the Sun and the collection of data on its activity and solar wind.
The Helios L1 probe has been steadily orbiting along a preset orbit at temperatures of up to 5,500 °C, providing us with a new perspective and a substantial boost to our deeper understanding of the Sun.
India's L1 solar probe successfully flew past the Lagrange point, which not only made a strong mark in the history of India's aerospace industry, but also inspired the world's enthusiasm to continue to move forward.
One of the biggest difficulties for the Helios L1 probe to observe the Sun is the Alvin tipping point.
The Sun's "Alvin interface" is actually the end of the solar atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind, and this interface is located about 6.9 million to 13.8 million kilometers from the surface of the sun.
Although this distance from the surface of the sun is still far away, the temperature of the matter here is still quite high, the temperature of particles may be above 100,000, and some even say that the temperature here is as high as about 920,000 degrees Celsius.
It stands to reason that no man-made probe can withstand such high temperatures, but the Parker Solar Probe became the first solar probe to penetrate the solar atmosphere by a human probe.
That's because some people say that the actual situation is not what people think, and although the temperature here is high, the matter is very thin.
It has been speculated that the true surface temperature of the Parker Solar Probe may have been around 1,000 when it passed by, and that the Parker Solar Probe had a heat shield.
However, it is truly shocking that the Helios L1 probe was able to reach the Lagrange point and continue to observe the Sun.
China's first solar probe science and technology experimental satellite "Xihe" was launched on October 14, 2021 at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-2D carrier rocket.
Xihe, as China's first space-based solar probe, has been pinned on more expectations.
If some of our innovations succeed this time, they can be applied to China's space observation field on a large scale in the future.
What is the difference between the Helios L1 probe and China's "Xihe" solar probe?
The Helios L1 probe, a space-based observatory for the study of the Sun, will spend four months to reach the Lagrange point L1 to observe the Sun.
Xihe is China's spectral detection and technology experiment satellite, which means that it not only observes and sees the sun, but also verifies this system.
Although it is not easy to understand India's aerospace and admire the spirit of India's aerospace, India's aerospace relies on foreign help in many places, and almost every link in the process of aerospace development is inseparable from foreign help. Three minutes to talk about popular science