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NASA calls India’s anti-satellite missile (A-SAT) test ‘terrible thing’

Washington: NASA has slammed India’s anti-satellite missile (A-SAT) test last week saying it has increased risk to the International Space Station (ISS) and may launch a race of sort among countries to repeat the feat. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on Monday said the A-SAT missile’s successful targetting of a live satellite on a low earth orbit […]

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A-SAT launch boosts BJP’s nationalism narrative

New Delhi: Seeking to build on its narrative of nationalism, just two weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday went on an overdrive and linked successful launch of an anti-satellite missile to the Narendra Modi government’s “determination” to enhance national security through bold decisions. The announcement of the feat, […]

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India’s A-SAT based on indigenous technology

New Delhi: India on Wednesday demonstrated its capability to interdict and intercept a satellite in outer space based on indigenous technology, the government said. The Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) Missile test, Mission Shakti, conducted from the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Island launch complex in Odisha, was a technological mission carried out by the DRDO. An External Affairs […]