Anti Satellite Missile

Britain and us brand kremlin launch of first ever anti satellite weapon in space a threat to peace the united states has described the event as a test.

Anti satellite missile. The missile system was developed by the defence research and development organisation drdo a research wing of the indian defence services. Prime minister narendra modi on wednesday announced the successful test of the anti satellite asat missile in space under three minutes named mission shakti. Military reconnaissance satellite that had. The first us anti satellite weapon was the bold orion weapon system 199b.

The type of anti satellite weapon used in mission shakti has similar although not entirely the same technology as anti ballistic missile weapons that the u s. Military fired in a march 25. Starting in the late 1950s the united states began development of anti satellite weapons. With this test india became the fourth nation with anti satellite missile capabilities.

The test was of russia s new nudol anti satellite missile system analysts projected launching from the plesetsk cosmodrome about 800 km 497 miles north of moscow. India stated that this capability is a deterrent and is not directed against any nation. This image shows the plesetsk cosmodrome in northern russia the site of a russian. Pm modi called this is as an.

Like the asm 135 the bold orion missile was air launched but in this case from a b 47 stratojet the bold orion was tested on 19 october 1959 against the explorer 6 satellite. Nudol has completed seven tests. Russia fires star wars missile. Sm 3 missile designed to shoot down enemy ballistic missiles also has an anti satellite capability.

In 2008 a sm 3 shot down a u s.