Russia asks India to prevent arms race in space

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ “Russia intends to continue to make the necessary effort to prevent an arms race in outer space. The idea of ​​developing a multilateral legally binding instrument for keeping outer space peaceful based on the Russian-Chinese draft treaty with support of a group of like-minded nations to prevent weaponization of outer space, the use or threat of force against space objects as well as multilateral initiative – political obligations not to be first to place weapons in space are becoming particularly important.

“We offer our Indian partners to actively join these joint efforts of the international community.” On March 27, 2019, India conducted Mission Shakti, an anti-satellite missile test, from the Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Island launch complex. This was a technological mission carried out by the Defence Research and Development Organisation. The satellite used in the mission was one of India’s existing satellites operating in lower orbit.

The test was fully successful and achieved all parameters as per plans. The test required an extremely high degree of precision and technical capability. The significance of the test is that India has tested and successfully demonstrated its capability to interdict and intercept a satellite in outer space based on complete indigenous technology. With this test, India joins an exclusive group of space faring nations consisting of the United States, Russia and China.