Indian Anti Satellite Missile Test
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 and its astronauts at risk.
Indian anti satellite missile test. The test was fully successful and achieved all parameters as per plans the ministry stated. Stating that defence and offensive space technologies are being developed with various aims of spying gaining control deactivating service and destroying french envoy in india alexandre ziegler has supported india s anti satellite asat missile test as a response to these growing threats. The missile struck an unidentified indian satellite. In the early 1980s the soviet union had developed two mig 31d foxhounds as a launch platform for a potential vympel anti satellite weapon system.
Neither modi nor the ministry identified the. The asat test utilized a modified anti ballistic missile interceptor code named prithvi defence vehicle mark ii which was developed under project xsv 1. India s defense research and development organization launched a ballistic missile defense bmd interceptor missile in an anti satellite a sat missile test called mission shakti on. For this reason narang says that the anti satellite test was more a demonstration of india s ballistic missile defense system rather than its ability to challenge adversaries in space.
The drdo s ballistic missile defence interceptor was used on an indian satellite for the test. Microsat r is the suspected target of the indian asat experiment.