On Wednesday March 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used a national address to announce India had “established itself as a space power” by sending an indigenously designed ballistic-missile interceptor up 300 kilometres (190 miles) to destroy a satellite orbiting the Earth, India Defense News reports.
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| March 27, 2019, a date which will live in India's history, as the Project XSV-1 was successfully implemented with the destruction of a satellite by an ASAT weapon indigenously developed (Picture source: via The Indian Express) |