India shoots down satellite in test, Modi hails arrival as space power.
NEW DELHI - 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.
Anti-satellite weapons permit attacks on enemy satellites, blinding them or disrupting communications, as well as providing a technology base to intercept ballistic missiles. China's foreign ministry said it hoped all countries"can earnestly protect lasting peace and tranquillity in space." Russia declined to make any immediate comment.
The latest test, conducted from an island off India's east coast, was aimed at protecting the country's assets in space against foreign attacks, the government said. But Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey said the risk of fragments hitting other objects in space remained.
China's test spurred India to develop its anti-satellite capability, said Ajay Lele, a senior fellow of the government-funded Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. A spokeswoman for the U.S. mission in Geneva, which handles disarmament issues, had no immediate comment on the Indian test.The United States ran the first anti-satellite test in 1959, when satellites were rare and new.
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