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NASA furious after India missile test risked COLLISION with International Space Station
2 April 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...-india-missile-satellite-test-Jim-Bridenstine
NASA has branded India’s satellite missile test a “terrible, terrible thing” that threatens the International Space Station.
It created at least 400 pieces of orbital debris last week, with just 60 large enough to track.
Of those, 24 went above the ISS at the point furthest from its orbit of the earth.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said: "That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris at an apogee that goes above the International Space Station.
"That kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight."
He added: "It is not acceptable for us to allow people to create orbital debris fields that put our people at risk.”
DANGER: 24 bits of debris went above the ISS at the point furthest from its orbit of the earth (Pic: GETTY)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the test on March 27, saying it had established India as a “space power”.
India’s Ministry of Foreign Affair said the test was conducted in “the lower atmosphere to ensure that there is no space debris," and "whatever debris that is generated will decay and fall back onto the Earth within weeks."
It increased the risk of small debris hitting the ISS by 44% over the 10 days immediately afterwards.
Mr Bridenstine continued: "It's unacceptable, and NASA needs to be very clear about what its impact to us is.
"We are charged with enabling more activities in space than we've ever seen before for the purpose of benefiting the human condition, whether it's pharmaceuticals or printing human organs in 3-D to save lives here on Earth, or manufacturing capabilities in space that you're not able to do in a gravity well.
“That kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight”
- NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine
"All of those are placed at risk when these kind of events happen — and when one country does it, then other countries feel like they have to do it as well."
China created international alarm after a similar test in 2007.
The NASA chief said “a lot” of the debris created by that test remained in orbit.
The US military is currently tracking around 10,000 pieces of space debris, nearly a third of which is said to have been created by China.
2 April 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...-india-missile-satellite-test-Jim-Bridenstine
NASA has branded India’s satellite missile test a “terrible, terrible thing” that threatens the International Space Station.
It created at least 400 pieces of orbital debris last week, with just 60 large enough to track.
Of those, 24 went above the ISS at the point furthest from its orbit of the earth.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said: "That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris at an apogee that goes above the International Space Station.
"That kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight."
He added: "It is not acceptable for us to allow people to create orbital debris fields that put our people at risk.”
DANGER: 24 bits of debris went above the ISS at the point furthest from its orbit of the earth (Pic: GETTY)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the test on March 27, saying it had established India as a “space power”.
India’s Ministry of Foreign Affair said the test was conducted in “the lower atmosphere to ensure that there is no space debris," and "whatever debris that is generated will decay and fall back onto the Earth within weeks."
It increased the risk of small debris hitting the ISS by 44% over the 10 days immediately afterwards.
Mr Bridenstine continued: "It's unacceptable, and NASA needs to be very clear about what its impact to us is.
"We are charged with enabling more activities in space than we've ever seen before for the purpose of benefiting the human condition, whether it's pharmaceuticals or printing human organs in 3-D to save lives here on Earth, or manufacturing capabilities in space that you're not able to do in a gravity well.
“That kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight”
- NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine
"All of those are placed at risk when these kind of events happen — and when one country does it, then other countries feel like they have to do it as well."
China created international alarm after a similar test in 2007.
The NASA chief said “a lot” of the debris created by that test remained in orbit.
The US military is currently tracking around 10,000 pieces of space debris, nearly a third of which is said to have been created by China.
