India shoots down satellite in test, Modi hails arrival as space power

Reuters ^ | March 27, 2019 | Sanjeev Miglani, and Krishna N. Das

[C19fan]

India shot down one of its satellites in space with an anti-satellite missile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, hailing the country’s first test of such technology as a major breakthrough that establishes it as a space power.

India would only be the fourth country to have used such an anti-satellite weapon after the United States, Russia and China, said Modi, who heads into general elections next month.

[C19fan]

Almost 200 MM people in India live in absolute poverty earning less then $2 a day but hey we spend billions on vanity projects like the world's largest statue and anti-satellite weapons.

[AppyPappy]

Giving free government money to people would not help them. Government are not created to re-distribute income. Their best use of government is defending the country

[ClearCase_guy]

The three-minute test in the lower atmosphere ensured there was no debris in space and the remnants would “decay and fall back on to the earth within weeks”, the ministry added.

Glad to hear it. Kinetic attacks against satellites can have vast unexpected consequences. Debris in the wrong orbit is very bad. Sounds like India was reasonably responsible here.

[Red Badger]

From way before the Moguls it was always thus................

[a fool in paradise]

“But we don’t need a Space Force...”

[DIRTYSECRET]

Good thing they’re on our side I think. Would they turn loose on the British?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[butlerweave]

Oh look more space junk

[Renegade]

So niw we gave more junk in orbit to potentially damage spacecraft and satellites in near Earth orbit?Idiots!

[Chode]

so now there's even MORE debris floating around to cause problems,,, wonderful

[SunkenCiv]

A couple of Scott Manley videos about this:

Shooting Down A Missile With Another Missile, In Space

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