{"id":85326,"date":"2019-08-26T18:21:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2019-08-26T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:51:45","slug":"nasa-says-49-debris-from-a-sat-test-still-in-space-indian-missile-expert-slams-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-says-49-debris-from-a-sat-test-still-in-space-indian-missile-expert-slams-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA says 49 debris from A-Sat test still in space, Indian missile expert slams report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to NASA\u2019s latest orbital debris\nquarterly news, 49 debris from India\u2019s Mission Shakti remain on orbit as of\nJuly 15<sup>th<\/sup>. The report has however been rejected by India\u2019s missile\nexperts.<\/li><li>Mission Shakti was an Anti-satellite (ASAT)\nmissile test conducted by India in March 2019. The Mission was carried out by\nshooting down Microsat-R with a modified exo-atmospheric missile of the\nballistic missile defence at an altitude of 300 km. Microsat-R is a imaging\nsatellite which was launched by ISRO using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle\n(PSLV) in January 2019.<\/li><li>Space debris are artificial material that is\norbiting Earth but is no longer functional. They consists of dead satellites,\nspent rocket motors, nuts and bolts etc. Space debris is a threat to active\nsatellites and spaceships as they pose risk of collisions.<\/li><li>According to Space-track website, in total, 14,520\ndebris and 5165 functional and non-functional satellites are currently in\nspace. India currently has 96 functional and non-functional satellites in space\nand 173 species of trackable debris. USA has 4,804 debris and 1791 functional\nand non-functional satellites.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to NASA\u2019s latest orbital debris quarterly news, 49 debris from India\u2019s Mission Shakti remain on orbit as of July 15th. The report has however been rejected by India\u2019s missile experts. Mission Shakti was an Anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test conducted by India in March 2019. The Mission was carried out by shooting down Microsat-R with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-says-49-debris-from-a-sat-test-still-in-space-indian-missile-expert-slams-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA says 49 debris from A-Sat test still in space, Indian missile expert slams report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2182],"class_list":["post-85326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-mission-shakti","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704773989},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}