(PTI)India’s anti-satellite test last week created 24 debris pieces that rose higher than the International Space Station and increased the small debris impact risk to the ISS, Jim Bridenstine, the head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), said on Tuesday. Bridenstine said the test had increased the small debris impact risk to the ISS by 44 per cent. Hundreds of the debris pieces from the Chinese anti-satellite test in 2007 are still in orbit. But sections of strategic technology sector analysts point out that the ISS has been dodging space debris for years, long before India’s anti-satellite test. A senior Indian analyst pointed out that the vast proportion of space debris is not of Indian origin but said it was time the country also invested in efforts to track space debris.

Source: The Telegraph April 02, 2019 21:22 UTC