The antisatellite test catapulted 24 pieces of debris to locations above the space station, from where they will gradually descend toward Earth
One week after India became the fourth country in the world to target and shatter a satellite in low Earth orbit with a missile, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine condemned the unilateral move on Monday.
During the three-minute-long antisatellite test last week, India shot down one of its own satellites to prove that it has acquired technology that would allow it to participate in possible future confrontations in space. While the vast majority of global defense budgets are still used to purchase conventional arms, experts are warning that space is increasingly becoming a new frontier for some of the world’s best-equipped militaries. President Trump announced the creation of a U.S.
The satellite destroyed by India last week was 186 miles from Earth, whereas the ISS usually circles Earth at an altitude of at least 205 miles. But last week’s missile attack sent some debris parts far deeper into space. The task of tracking potentially dangerous debris is mostly left to NASA, which has struggled to catch up with the growing problem. While the European Space Agency estimates that about 34,000 debris parts larger than 10 centimeters are circling in orbit, NASA monitors only 10,000, so far. When those objects collide with one another, they create even more — and potentially still dangerous — debris.
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