India's Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Weapons

[Nicky G]

No idea what sense he is trying to make. Why would anyone want to blow up a GPS satellite. Don't carry a transmitter, easy fix.

Just another person of Indian descent with a colonial hangover used by his master's to try and down play Indian a achievements. In another tweet he makes fun of this being indigenous.

Deserved little but to be ignored with contempt.

 

[aghamarshana]

Russkies r bringing us to the Round Table.
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[Shiv sagar]

Does this t

Russkies r bringing us to the Round Table.
Big guys beer party. Only 4 members

Thats so nice of them..

 

[sayareakd]

Laser frying a satellite 500kms above and moving at 8kms/s ?
Theoretically possible, not sure if it's practically doable though - also if China has developed that level of targeting capability!

One thing that might buttress the claim would be if the satellites become dysfunctional precisely when they were flying over the Tibetan plateau. I doubt if this data is available.

Just like some Aussie analysts give very unfavorable viewpoints on India, Raj47 always seems to spin things in India's stride.

only 2-3 electronic parts all you have to damage, then satellite will be out of action for good. That is what is going on. You dont need to burn the satellite to cause damage to it.

 

[Srinivas_K]

Russkies r bringing us to the Round Table.
Big guys beer party. Only 4 members.[emoji23]

Historically speaking, India follows independent policy when it comes to this kind of treaties. We have done the same with USA and west when they approached us with NPT and CTBT treaties. This time also we follow the same.
Now that India is an established space power, India should see the terms and conditions if they are biased and based on that suggest if any modifications are necessary.

India was and is for peace!

 

[Enquirer]

only 2-3 electronic parts all you have to damage, then satellite will be out of action for good. That is what is going on. You dont need to burn the satellite to cause damage to it.

You do realize that all parts of a satellite are 'radiation hardened'?
You would need much more stronger powered laser to damage any part of a satellite than it is to damage a missile.

The issue is not even the power requirement....but targeting capability. 8 kms per second is quite fast. Agreed that the orbit is well defined, but lasing a target the size of about 1m2 at that speed does need some precision engineering.

That's why I am saying that theoretically it's possilbe....but not sure such precision engineering has been successfully developed by China.

If China had indeed destroyed Indian satellite...it would have been an international event. Not just for India's loss....but the vulnerability it creates for satellites of every country.

 

[kunal1123]

You do realize that all parts of a satellite are 'radiation hardened'?
You would need much more stronger powered laser to damage any part of a satellite than it is to damage a missile.

The issue is not even the power requirement....but targeting capability. 8 kms per second is quite fast. Agreed that the orbit is well defined, but lasing a target the size of about 1m2 at that speed does need some precision engineering.

That's why I am saying that theoretically it's possilbe....but not sure such precision engineering has been successfully developed by China.

If China had indeed destroyed India satellite...it would have been an international event. Not just for India's loss....but the vulnerability it creates for satellites of every country.

rightly said and that USA ,Russia and UK might not have Intel on such event , it will become worldwide news whith lot of reaction just like 2007 for china.
not easy to hide

 

[Enquirer]

only 2-3 electronic parts all you have to damage, then satellite will be out of action for good. That is what is going on. You dont need to burn the satellite to cause damage to it.

You do realize that all parts of a satellite are 'radiation hardened'?
You would need much more stronger powered laser to damage any part of a satellite than it is to damage a missile.

The issue is not even the power requirement....but targeting capability. 8 kms per second is quite fast. Agreed that the orbit is well defined, but lasing a target the size of about 1m2 at that speed does need some precision engineering.

That's why I am saying that theoretically it's possilbe....but not sure such precision engineering has been successfully developed by China.

If China had indeed destroyed Indian satellite...it would have been an international event. Not just for India's loss....but the vulnerability it creates for satellites of every country.

rightly said and that USA ,Russia and UK might not have Intel on such event , it will become worldwide news whith lot of reaction just like 2007 for china.
not easy to hide

A quick Google search revealed this....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/pentagon-russia-china-laser-threat/index.html

It appears that China (& Russia) is indeed developing such laser weapons...it is supposed to attain the capability to damage 'optical' sensors on satellites by next year.

Destruction of non-optical parts maybe possible in mid 2020s....

Where is KALI??????????????????????????????????????????

 

[Arihant Roy]

Does any of my fellow bhakts here visit the drive/warzone or follow Tyler Rogoway?

He and his fellow blogger Joseph are still in complete denial. These guys are so butthurt that they haven't yet penned an article on our ASAT test.

Then there are other butthurt self aclaimed missile defense and OSINT experts like Ankit Panda, Jeffrey Lewis, Vipin Narang.
They are unable to comprehend what we just did.

India leapfrogging into an exclusive club of just three nations to have this type of bleeding edge tech.

 

[Arihant Roy]

Guys, go through this article.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/sta...are-accuracy-by-young-scientists-1957416.html

"Apart from the technologies used in the BMD system and the long range underwater missile under ANSP programme, the DRDO had to add few more technologies to integrate the new A-SAT missile.
New technologies included very quick reaction divert and altitude control system and a powerful sensor that can detect target from a far distance. The divert thruster has been used for the first time and no other missile has such a unique technology. The new launcher was also built in a record three months. "

What is this ANSP program that Hemant Kumar is referring to?

So I stand vindicated. A new IIR seeker with a high resolution fpa matrix had been used.

A brand new KV with divert thrusters for alt control has been used. The kill vehicle had smashed right at the Centre of 1.5 by 1.5 metre satellite. It hit within 10 cms which is a tremendous achievement by itself.

In all probability, this brand new seeker and KKV will now be used in the PDV missile. New tech being introduced into existing products as and when they mature. Continual product improvement.

This same seeker and KKV will most probably be used in the AD-1 missile. So some building blocks for BMD phase 2 inteeceptors has already been validated .



A draft space doctrine is now being drafted by NSA Ajit Doval.

My gau mutra sipping fellow bhakts, a Space command is in the offing

Pic courtesy - Kakarat from BRF

 

[V_Force]

All Salutes to Mr. Ajit Kumar Doval present day IRON MAN (LOH PURUSH) and Right Hand of Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh. Narender Modi, he is the real Factor for the ASAT Missile test. Hats Off to the Vision of Mr. Ajit Kumar Doval. Expressed his views and vision some five years ago about India to get ASAT Capability and I was also sure about the ASAT test being done during the present Government’s tenure.
Watch this video from 1:27:20 onwards and listen him carefully. Once again HATS Off to this Great Man and real Strategic Asset, Sh. Ajit Kumar Doval.

 

[WARREN SS]

Then there are other butthurt self aclaimed missile defense and OSINT experts like Ankit Panda, Jeffrey Lewis, Vipin Narang.
They are unable to comprehend what we just did.

Kinetic Kill at a target at 300 kilometers in space and moving at 30,000 kilometers per hour.

On February 14, 2008, U.S. officials announced plans to use a modified SM-3 missile launched from a group of three ships in the North Pacific to destroy the failed American satellite USA-193 at an altitude of 130 nautical miles (240 kilometers) shortly before atmospheric reentry


DRDO just meet capability of Aegis Class Ballistic missile Kill vehicle

 

[hit&run]

Makes sense. We have much more achieve. But no doubt we have to start somewhere.

During the war, microsatellites which include synthetic aperture satellites are launched in haste for specific zones and they are always LEO.

 

[hit&run]

Also, the current vehicle's range is 1000KM, the target was selected at 300 km for expeditious debris decay and fall back.

India Says Its Anti-Satellite Weapon Test Created Minimal Space Debris. Is That True?


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"Mission Shakti" raises questions.

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India launched an anti-satellite mission test called Mission Shakti March 27, intercepting a satellite in low Earth orbit.
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Just weeks before election season starts in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the nation completed a successful test-fire of its first anti-satellite launch missile, dubbed "Mission Shakti," on Wednesday (March 27). The event sparked a global conversation about space policy, politics and the militarization of space in the hours that followed, as well as speculation about whether that type of test could create dangerous space debris.

This achievement by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DDRO) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) makes it only the fourth country to ever launch an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon.

"The test was done in the lower atmosphere to ensure that there is no space debris," officials from India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. "Whatever debris that is generated will decay and fall back onto the earth within weeks."

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The contents of Modi's address to the nation were unexpected. There was intense speculation about what his message might be about after Modi tweeted an advisory of the announcement, which was scheduled for about noon local time.

An anti-satellite weapon is anything that destroys or physically damages a satellite. According to SpaceNews, the only other countries that have fired an ASAT are the United States, Russia and China.


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Most outlets confirmed the satellite target was an Indian spacecraft in low Earth orbit called Microsat-R, according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The satellite target was at an altitude of about 168 miles (270 kilometers), McDowell told Space.com, and was passing northbound over the Bay of Bengal when the ASAT intercepted it.

The launch missile "doesn't carry any explosive, but just puts itself in the path of the satellite," McDowell said. "The satellite is traveling at 18,000 mph (29,000 km/h) … the kinetic energy of that impact is much more than any high explosive you could carry, so no point in putting a bomb on it."

India's Mission Shakti launched this ballistic missile defense Interceptor missile to take out a target satellite in low Earth orbit on March 27, 2019.

(Image: © Press Information Bureau, Government of India)
The impact "would have sent a hypersonic shock wave through the Microsat-R satellite and reduced it to shrapnel," McDowell said. And after a few weeks it ought to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

"What we are expecting is that U.S. space tracking will catalog a bunch of new debris objects; that has not happened yet… before you can actually catalog the debris, it may take several days to actually sort out and see how many individual objects you have, and not double count things," he said.

Unlike China's ASAT launch in 2007, which struck their Fengyun-1C weather satellite resulting in severe fragmentation and long-lived debris, McDowell believes the orbital zone of Microsat-R means the shrapnel here will likely burn up in Earth's atmosphere over the next three weeks.

Microsat-R was at a lower altitude than Fengyun. It was at about the same altitude as the satellite USA 193, which was the target of a U.S. anti-satellite test called Operation Burnt Frost in February 2008, according to Space News. USA 193 was about 155 miles (250 km) high at the time of impact. Unlike Mission Shakti, the U.S. government announced Burnt Frost in advance.

ISRO is the space agency of the government of India, and has its headquarters in the city of Bengaluru. DRDO carries out military research and development for the Indian government, and is based in New Delhi.

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[Arihant Roy]

Kinetic Kill at a target at 300 kilometers in space and moving at 30,000 kilometers per hour.

On February 14, 2008, U.S. officials announced plans to use a modified SM-3 missile launched from a group of three ships in the North Pacific to destroy the failed American satellite USA-193 at an altitude of 130 nautical miles (240 kilometers) shortly before atmospheric reentry


DRDO just meet capability of Aegis Class Ballistic missile Kill vehicle

Drdo had exceeded what US MDA did in operation Burnt Frost . The Asat missile can take out satellites upto an altitude of 1000 km according to Dr G Satheesh Reddy but we did it at 300 km to mitigate the problem of space debris.

Infact most Western anal cysts are astounded. They can't fathom what we have done.

The PDV MKII can be compared to the GMD GBI from Boeing. This is our very own mid course interceptor. And an ICBM killer.

 

[ezsasa]

Makes sense. We have much more achieve. But no doubt we have to start somewhere.

Vipin’s area of expertise is nuclear tech, he is trying to build false equivalence narrative in to our ASAT capabilities.

no country got it right on first try.

Couple of weeks back he was part of balakot aftermath think tank discussion, he was telling the audience Pulwama incident was a few grenades thrown in the paramilitary bus.

Our brown sahebs are more loyal to the kingdom than the king himself. paki brown sahebs are way better than our guys, they atleast try to put paki POV in every discussion.

 

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[WARREN SS]

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I Trust More On private Entities than Our Lethargic DPSU in Leaking information

 

[tarunraju]

Russkies r bringing us to the Round Table.
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If you notice the difference between the US and Russian reactions, there are some interesting takeaways:

• USAF in a senate committee hearing put on record that an Indian ASAT test "did happen."
• US State Dept did not make any comments dissuading militarization of space, nor did it voice concerns about the debris field of the ASAT test
• USAF said it's tracking 250+ fragments from the destroyed satellite, and sounded convinced that India did not fuck-up like the Chinese in 2007 by creating a vast and uncontrollable debris field
• US State Dept referred to India as a "strategic partner" in its statement, and AFTER the ASAT test, offered more BMD tech cooperation as an alternative to our S-400 purchase.

The Russian reaction is not very different from the Chinese one, to be honest:

• No explicit acknowledgement of the test.
• Voiced fear and concerns over militarization of space and used terms like "arms race," as if to dissuade us from further development of ASAT capabilities
• Asked India to join an ASAT-control regime that the Chinese had a big hand in drafting after their 2007 fuck-up

Fuck the Russians. I think it's time we seriously examine the US alternative to the S-400 deal and consider closer cooperations with the Americans, minus their Pepe Le Pew attempts to get us to buy F-16 and its derivatives.

 

[WARREN SS]

Drdo had exceeded what US MDA did in operation Burnt Frost . The Asat missile can take out satellites upto an altitude of 1000 km according to Dr G Satheesh Reddy but we did it at 300 km to mitigate the problem of space debris.

Infact most Western anal cysts are astounded. They can't fathom what we have done.

The PDV MKII can be compared to the GMD GBI from Boeing. This is our very own mid course interceptor. And an ICBM killer.

And That To In Minimum Monetary Support Provided to them unlike big Budgets
Only Wonder What Can DRDO achieve If they are provided With half the resources DARPA has