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India. Modi: "We are a space superpower"

Successfully destroyed a satellite with a missile

In a message to the Nation the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the success of a missile test that killed a satellite in the low Earth orbit, in an exercise that makes India the fourth country in the world to do it after United States, Russia and China. Modi himself underlined this goal that "is due to the abilities of our scientific community that with its efforts allows us to be safer and more...

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Still critical of the anti-satellite missile test carried out by India: NASA director Jim Bridenstine also pointed out that "400 orbital debris have been created that have seriously endangered the International... more

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