Anti Satellite Weapon Upsc

As per drdo the missile is capable of shooting down targets moving at a speed of 10 km per second at an altitude as high as 1200 km.

Anti satellite weapon upsc. Several nations possess operational asat systems. The asat missile destroyed a live satellite in low earth orbit 283 kilometre. Anti satellite weapons asat are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Space weapons can attack space weapons in orbit asat attack targets on the earth from space or disable missiles travelling through space.

Asat missiles are of two types kinetic or non kinetic. Mission shakti is a joint programme of the defence research and development organisation drdo and the indian space research organisation isro. On march 27 india carried out an anti satellite asat test using an interceptor missile as a kinetic kill vehicle to neutralise a target satellite possibly the microsat r launched in january this year in a low earth orbit leo at an altitude of around 300 km while india is the fourth country after the u s russia ussr and china to. History when ussr demonstrated its ability to attack satellites in space the u s air force began developing the air launched anti satellite missile asat to destroy enemy.

The united states of america u s a tested anti satellite weapons in october 1959 when satellites themselves were new. Mission shakti march 27 2019 prime minister narendra modi announced that india has successfully test fired an anti satellite a sat missile by shooting down a live satellite. Mission shakti definition objectives significance upsc notes india conducted an anti satellite missile test on 27th march 2019 which was dubbed as mission shakti. As part of the mission an anti satellite a sat weapon was launched and targeted an indian satellite which had been decommissioned.

In 1985 it tested the agm 135. Anti satellite weapons asat in march 2019 india successfully tested its asat missile. Air force at explorer vi satellite. According to the federation of american scientists an air launched ballistic missile was fired from a b 47 bomber of the u s.

The test successfully destroyed a live satellite in the low earth orbit. Although no asat system has yet been utilised in warfare a few nations have shot down their own satellites to demonstrate their asat capabilities in a show of force. About mission shakti isro and drdo upsc ias. An anti satellite weapon or asat is anything that destroys or physically damages a satellite.