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The test made India only the fourth country in the world to have ASAT capability after US, Russia and China.

NASA had called India's ASAT test a 'terrible thing'. But the scientists at the DRDO clarified that the threat of debris is not that much. The entire debris will decay in 45 days.
 

Just days after Mission Shakti was launched to attack India’s own satellite, in a bid to expand the country’s defence, the Pentagon has now backed India in stating that the debris would not be harmful

Close to 60% of the posts on social media related to keyword ASAT received encouraging response while only 23% of over a lakh tweets were negative in nature and rest 17% were neutral 

ISRO's PSLV-C45's launch came six days after India test-fired an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile in the Mission Shakti operation.

The appeal was initiated by Kings XI Punjab spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who was on the receiving end of a flurry of massive sixes from KKR's swashbuckling batsman Andre Russell in a recent IPL game

While the model code of conduct prohibits government functionaries to address the nation in between the announcement of election dates and the dates of polling via radio or television, DD News had relayed the programme. The national broadcaster explained to the Election Commission that it was not its own telecast but news agency ANI's. ANI, in turn, got it from YouTube. Moreover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not make an announcement of any new policy decision, which is prohibited at the time when the model code is in vogue.

Congress party's star campaigner has attributed the successful test to India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru while saying that Nehru might not have taken the decision to display this capability, but laid the foundations of the organisation.

 

ISRO never got too much of attention of the UPA government. During UPA era, ISRO’s budget hardly increased. From around Rs 4,000 crore in 2009 to Rs 5,500 crore in 2014. What is it seeking credit for?

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India successfully test-fired an anti-satellite missile by shooting down a live satellite, describing it as a rare achievement that puts the country in an exclusive club of space super powers. 

The desperate Congress, checkmated by the Modi government, still tried to garner a share of the credit for the Mission Shakti success, ending up with a lame tweet that gave rise a lot of amusement on the microblogging site

India used indigenously made Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) for hitting the live satellite target, which was on a ‘Low Earth Orbit’ at a height of 300 kilometers from the earth’s surface