Anti Satellite Missile India

Indian prime minister narendra modi said that the country s military successfully demonstrated an anti satellite asat weapon in a test known as mission shakti in that test a ground based.
Anti satellite missile india. Strategic command was still. Mission shakti is a joint programme of the defence research and development organisation drdo and the indian space research organisation isro. Updated 9 56 am et tue april 2 2019 cnn india s anti satellite missile test created at least 400 pieces of orbital debris the head of nasa says placing the international space station iss. India shoots down live satellite in orbit joins elite group of.
India in 2019 conducted an anti satellite asat missile test named mission shakti becoming the fourth country in the world to demonstrate the capability to 9964432222. India s unexpected launch of an anti satellite missile test this week sparked surprise and some alarm among international and aerospace industry experts. The indian anti satellite asat program utilized spin off technologies from indian abm systems. India is developing a multi layered and multi phased missile defence system to defend against hostile ballistic and cruise missiles.
As part of the mission an anti satellite a sat weapon was launched and targeted an indian satellite which had been decommissioned. The test s success makes india the fourth. With this test india became the fourth nation with anti satellite missile. Ministry of defence government of india nearly a week after india s military blew up one of its own satellites in a ground to space missile test on march 27 u s.