India successfully tests anti satellite weapon. Low earth orbit satellite destroyed.

[Aryeih Leib]

Modizee wants to win

 

[Mrc]

It will take decades if not millenia for india to actually hace a real working weapon ...

But modi election compaign seems to b in full swing

 

[Aryan0395]

was an ISRO mission

DRDO*
(try again)

 

[kris]

Modizee wants to win View attachment 549604View attachment 549605

India attained Asat capability long time ago
This test is validation test

 

[Sam.]

Funny comments here with rocket scientists on both sides quipping on a subject they hardly know.
Though the real take is that the capability (technical questions aside) is geared more towards belligerent countries with active military satellites; in India's case it would be meant for China.

The real question should be discussing the fallout in the aftermath of India taking out Chinese military satellites and how would India shield itself after destroying said satellites.

We have the capability for long time but why PM announced it now is the subject of study. It seems to me it is towards China and coming elections.

 

[Enigma SIG]

We have the capability for long time but why PM announced it now is the subject of study. It seems to me it is towards China and coming elections.

You haven't answered my question; Modi and his political antics aside.

 

[Sam.]

You haven't answered my question; Modi and his political antics aside.

I didn't see any question pointed towards me?

 

[Asian.Century]

India test anti-satellite weapon to 300 Km

Indian Prime Minister Announces Successful Anti-Satellite Weapon Test in National Address

An Indian interceptor missile destroyed a satellite at an altitude of 300 km.

By Ankit Panda
March 27, 2019

In a surprise, unscheduled national address on Wednesday, March 27, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country had successfully carried out its first-ever anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test.

The test, codenamed “Mission Shakti,” took three minutes and destroyed a target satellite at an altitude of 300 km, in low-Earth orbit (LEO), Modi said. He applauded India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) for realizing the capability.

Modi underscored that with the test, India was among four countries with a demonstrated anti-satellite capability. The other three countries are the United States, China, and Russia.

Only the United States and China have conducted tests of anti-satellite systems against live targets in recent years. In 2007, China received widespread global opprobrium for shooting down a satellite at an altitude of more than 800 kilometers in LEO. The test produced more than two thousand pieces of debris, hundreds of which will remain in orbit for decades to come.

In 2008, the United States demonstrated an anti-satellite capability when a U.S. Navy Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Lake Erie launched a Standard Missile-3 interceptor. The test demonstrated the similarities between ballistic missile defense interception technologies and those required to destroy satellites.

According to Modi’s description, India’s anti-satellite test destroyed a target at an altitude more similar to the U.S. test, which produced minimal debris that decayed out of orbit within a year’s time. The U.S. test had shot down a satellite at an altitude of 240 km.

Russia is developed a new anti-satellite system known as the PL19, or Nudol. That weapon has yet to be tested against a live satellite target.

Indian officials have in the past discussed a nascent ASAT capability, but not in reference to any specific system.

In 2012, V.K. Saraswat, then the head of DRDO, noted that India had the components to put an anti-satellite weapon together.

“We will not do a physical test (actual destruction of a satellite) because of the risk of space debris affecting other satellites,” Saraswat had said at the time.

The differences between ballistic missile defense and ASAT technologies are minimal when the core function of the interceptor is to kinetically destroy an object at exo-atmospheric altitudes, be it on a ballistic trajectory or in low-earth orbit.

Though Modi did not specify which interceptor was used in the test, it may have been India’s Prithvi Defence Vehicle, an exoatmospheric hit-to-tell interceptor, similar to the U.S. SM-3 interceptor.

An Indian ASAT capability may generate concerns in Pakistan that the capability might portend a new era of ballistic missile defense capability in New Delhi.

 

[Mrc]

Election plot ..

Going by their history .. It will take them 5000 years to get capability to the field

 

[N.Siddiqui]

DRDO*
(try again)

the satellite that was shot...must be an ISRO sent, not the ASAT weapon.

 

[Nityam]

Election plot ..

Going by their history .. It will take them 5000 years to get capability to the field

Its a capability we had since 2011. We just demonstrated the weaponize system today.

the satellite that was shot...must be an ISRO sent, not the ASAT weapon.

ISRO is just the launch agency.

Satellites are made by private players and some DRDO labs.

 

[Smarana Mitra]

lol you want to avoid debris any blast will sent debris in all directions and to all altitudes. At 300 km sat will give am image of just 50m with resolution of 1 pixel per 10m so plz forgive me. It is not me but Modi has humiliated you people and made a fool of a nation of 1.2 billion people I have my sympathies for India.

How will kinetic kill in 300km orbit pollute 400km orbit? The debris don't have that much centripetal force to go that far up and still keep rotating.

Also, having higher resolution is very good for spy satellites whose sole objective is to capture clear picture. Just like your camera can see more clearly if the object is nearer, the satellite can also see more clearly if it is nearer.

Funny comments here with rocket scientists on both sides quipping on a subject they hardly know.
Though the real take is that the capability (technical questions aside) is geared more towards belligerent countries with active military satellites; in India's case it would be meant for China.

The real question should be discussing the fallout in the aftermath of India taking out Chinese military satellites and how would India shield itself after destroying said satellites.

India does not have special enmity with China. Even countries like USA which has regularly meddled in Indian Ocean is considered hostile.

 

[Aryeih Leib]

India attained Asat capability long time ago
This test is validation test

Why modi himself announced this test

Befooling the masses is his favourite tool

 

[kris]

No nation

Why modi himself announced this test

Befooling the masses is his favourite tool

In the end??

 

[Nityam]

Why modi himself announced this test

Befooling the masses is his favourite tool

LOL..... because he is the Prime Minister of India ?

How is informing the public about our ASAT test and capability, "fooling the masses" ?