India is an Emerging Space Power (1357) India is devoting signficant resources to building up its civil and military space program. On the civil side, they have built up and indigenous rocket and satellite production infrastructure and are planning projects to visit the moon and even Mars. On the military side, they are working on building up their ISR satellite capacity and building up their space control and defense capabilities, especially after the Chinese anti-satellite weapons test in January, 2007.
India is devoting signficant resources to building up its civil and military space program. On the civil side, they have built up and indigenous rocket and satellite production infrastructure and are planning projects to visit the moon and even Mars. On the military side, they are working on building up their ISR satellite capacity and building up their space control and defense capabilities, especially after the Chinese anti-satellite weapons test in January, 2007.