She said, "Today the threat of war looms large in South Asia due to India's delusionary leadership and in such critical juncture testing an
anti-satellite weapon is highly destabilizing for the strategic stability of the region."
The United States took aim at India's
anti-satellite weapons test with acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan saying "We all live in space.
India has become a "space superpower" with the successful testing of the
anti-satellite weapon. India would only be the fourth country to have used such an
anti-satellite weapon after the United States, Russia and China.
Addressing the nation on the television, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the scientists at the Indian Defence and Research Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully shot down one of its satellites using the
anti-satellite weapon. With this test India joined the elite space club alongside with the US, Russia and China.
Third, the United States claimed: "The Treaty does not address the most pressing, existing threat to outer space systems: terrestrially-based
anti-satellite weapon systems.
anti-satellite weapon that intercepts orbiting satellites as they pass
The advanced countries are now using "new space-based surveillance and intelligence gathering systems,
anti-satellite weapon, anti-radar, infrared decoys, and false target generators" to obtain the required results.
MOSCOW, Safar 17, 1433, Jan 11, 2012, SPA -- A Russian space official said a Mars-bound spacecraft due to crash to Earth soon may have failed because it was struck by some type of
anti-satellite weapon, according to UPI.
But two events in the past four years - a 2007 Chinese
anti-satellite weapon test and a 2009 crash-in-orbit of two satellites put so much new junk in space that everything changed, the report said.
The US report blamed two recent events - a 2007 Chinese
anti-satellite weapon test and a 2009 collision between two orbiting satellites.
The colonel cited jamming attempts of American GPS by foreign governments, and the use of an
anti-satellite weapon by the Chinese two years ago as examples of developing threats for which the U.S.
He also failed to win any new insights into China's surprise test of an
anti-satellite weapon in January.
