"That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris and an apogee that goes above the international space station. "The ASAT test by India last week has resulted in about 400 pieces of orbital debris," he added. He said the NASA is "learning more and more every hour" that goes by about this orbital debris field that has been created from the anti-satellite test. The US, he said, is doing it for free with the its taxpayers money from an orbital debris field that was created by another country. "The International Space Station is still safe.

Source: dna April 02, 2019 02:48 UTC