India had shown its anti-satellite missile capability by shooting down a live satellite. The success of Mission Shakti, an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test is a rare achievement because it has included the nation in an exclusive club of space super-powers. The DRDO chairman G Satheesh on Sunday said that Mission Shakti has demonstrated the country's technological capabilities to carry out such a mission with precision.
During a meeting on technical capabilities and an aerospace luminary lecture organised here by the Aeronautical Society of India, Satheeh said the critical systems, including software and sensors, were indigenously developed by scientists from various specialisations.
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The challenge during the mission (Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) test) conducted on March 27 was ensuring cohesive response of all the systems to ever-changing dynamics, a press release from the Aeronautical Society of India quoted Reddy as saying.
Reddy also congratulated the Defence Research Development Organisation RDO labs and team members associated with Mission Shakti.
Ballistic missile defence (BMD) programme director (Area-Defence) U Rajababu, in his address, highlighted the objectives and criticalities of Mission Shakti. "The high altitude and high velocity interception pose many technological challenges in respect of seekers for early detection and trajectory correction systems for finer corrections before engagement." He said.
