India’s space policy, once driven primarily by domestic development goals, is increasingly aligning with that of the United ...

India conducted its first successful anti-satellite (ASAT) test, dubbed “Mission Shakti,” on March 27, 2019. Using a so-called PDV Mark II missile, a modified version of India’s Prithvi ...

The test's success makes India the fourth country capable of destroying an enemy satellite, after the U.S., Russia and China. But how does that technology work? An anti-satellite weapon, or ASAT ...

or ASAT, tests come with a cost. India’s test, known as “Mission Shakti,” broke the satellite apart into hundreds of pieces of debris that have since been tracked by the United States Air Force.

The test seemingly proves that India has mastered what is known as anti-satellite, or ASAT, technology. But experts argue that such actions are concerning, as they can create hundreds to thousands ...

On March 27, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his country had successfully conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) test from a launch site on Abdul Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal.

augmenting India’s ASAT weapons capability. Following China’s 2007 ASAT weapons test, the then-chief of army staff of the Indian Army, General Deepak Kapoor, was quoted in a Times of India ...

Before India, only three nations had demonstrated ASAT capability. Russia achieved the world's first ASAT kill in 1968 when its killer satellite fired steel pellets to cripple a Soviet satellite.

Here’s how it works. To piece together what happened during the anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test-fired by India's military defense organization last week (March 27), a software company combed ...

Some debris from India's March 27 ASAT test will take over a year to deorbit. Credit: AGI COLORADO SPRINGS — At least a dozen fragments from India’s March 27 anti-satellite test reached ...

India’s Mission Shakti, an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test carried out on 27 March by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), makes it the fourth nation after the US, Russia and ...