With Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announcing about India acquiring anti-satellite capability by shooting down a live satellite in low earth orbit, the question is which satellite was shot down.
Modi was silent on the satellite that was hit.
Officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)were said to be in a meeting and not available when IANS sought to clarify theissue.
However, an ISRO spokesperson told IANS: “The entireactivity was that of the DRDO’s and we were not involved in it.”
India has a good number of earth observation andcommunication satellites in orbit.
The space debris resulting because of India hitting asatellite in low earth orbit is expected to be not much.
Though India’s anti-satellite capability was talked aboutearlier, it was only on Wednesday it was proved to the world.
India is also launching a good number of dedicated defencesatellites in recent times.
With China shooting down its own satellite some years ago,the question of safety of India’s satellites in orbit had come up fordiscussions.