Modi Hails India's Arrival as Space Power After it Shoots Down Satellite in Test:
India shot down one of its own satellites in low-Earth orbit with a ground-to-space missile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, hailing his country's first test of such weaponry as a breakthrough establishing it as a military 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.
"Our scientists shot down a live satellite 300 kilometers away in space, in low-Earth orbit," Modi said in a television broadcast.
"India has made an unprecedented achievement today," he added, speaking in Hindi. "India registered its name as a space power."
Elections are coming up, and more than one politician is trying to make their name as the Space General of the future.
[Updated 2019-03-28 to properly quote source article.--martyb]
(Score: 1, Troll) by JoeMerchant on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:01AM (3 children)
What I don't get is: why space? Pakistan is right next door.
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:08AM
Less fallout, this way.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:59AM
So is China.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @03:33PM
To be sure, you have to do it from orbit.