The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is trying ahead to cooperating with Japanese company JAXA within the subject of house exploration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mentioned whereas congratulating Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Tokyo’s successful lunar landing. Japan made historical past on January 20 by turning into solely the fifth nation to land a spacecraft on the moon, a mission that was helmed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Mr. Modi congratulated Mr. Kishida for JAXA’s first comfortable moon touchdown, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) mentioned on Sunday. Japan’s good Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) landed on the lunar floor close to an equatorial crater that was hailed as a significant milestone within the nation’s house exploration.

“He further said that the ISRO looks forward to cooperating with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in space exploration,” it mentioned.

Japan’s good Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) landed on the lunar floor close to an equatorial crater that was hailed as a significant milestone within the nation’s house exploration.

Mr. Modi posted on X on Saturday night time: “Congratulations Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and everyone at JAXA on achieving Japan’s first soft Moon landing. India looks forward to our cooperation in space exploration between ISRO and JAXA.” The different international locations that made soft-landing on the moon are India, the U.S., China and the erstwhile Soviet Union.