New Delhi: Most of the debris generated from from the anti-satellite test India conducted in March has decayed and rest of it will dissipate in a "short period of time", Defence Research and Development Organisation's Chairman G Satheesh Reddy said on Friday. “The majority of the pieces are gone and the few remaining will decay shortly,” Reddy said. He was responding to a question after delivering a talk on Technology for National Security at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. India conducted the test, codenamed Mission Shakti, in the lowest possible orbit to ensure there was no threat of debris to any global space asset.

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A-SAT used ballistic missile technology for hitting the target, the interceptor was based on hit to kill mode. No warheads or explosion was used to neutralize the satellite. Previously NASA had termed Mission SHAKTI as unacceptable and said: "This is terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris in an apogee that goes above the International Space Station."

The DRDO chief said the continuous information received is being monitored and "I don't think there are any issues". "It is extremely difficult to predict as to how many days it would take... But, as I had said that day, that they would decay in a few weeks, and the majority of them have decayed," he added.

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