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India’s ASAT test a response to growing space threats: France
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- Recently, French Envoy in India Alexandre Ziegler has supported India’s Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile test as a response to these growing threats.
- He said that defence and offensive space technologies are being developed with various aims of spying, gaining control, deactivating service.
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- Debris concerns:(1) He also observed that outer space has become an “arena of rivalry between major powers.”(2) At the same time, he said there was common concern on space debris.(3) Satellites today have to avoid almost 6,00,000 debris of over 1cm travelling at speed faster than a bullet, he stated.
- ASAT test in LEO:(1) India shot down a live satellite in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) of 300 km using a modified interceptor of the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system.(2) India had stated that the LEO was particularly chosen to minimise space debris.
- India and France in Space:(1) India and France, which have been cooperating in the area of space for several decades, had announced the setting up of a constellation of satellites for maritime surveillance of the Indian Ocean.(2) As part of this, the two countries are co-developing constellation 10-15 satellites that could help monitor the maritime traffic in the Indian Ocean.
- Same vision: France said that it shares India’s view on the use of outer space for peaceful purposes and therefore refuse any destabilising arms race, which would be detrimental to all of us.
Source
The Hindu