Around noon on March 27, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi came out on national television to announce to the world that India had shot down a low-earth orbit satellite (a satellite at an altitude of 2,000km or less) using an ASAT (anti-satellite) missile.
The operation, named Mission Shakti, made India the fourth nation—after the US, Russia and China—to achieve the capability of destroying an enemy satellite. The destroyed satellite had an altitude of 300 kilometres. Read More…
