Islamabad, Apr 3 (UNI) Days after US space agency NASA called India’s destruction of satellite a “terrible thing” that could threaten the International Space Station (ISS), Pakistan on Wednesday said it was ‘deeply concerned’ over the space debris generated by the recently conducted Anti-Satellite weapon (ASAT) test by India.
India on March 27 had become a “space superpower” with the successfully testing an anti-satellite weapon under ‘Mission Shakti’ where it destroyed its own decommissioned satellite that was hovering in the Low Earth Orbit (LOE) at a height of 300 Km from the earth’s surface.
NASA space agency’s chief, Jim Bridenstine, said, “the International Space Station is still safe. If we need to manoeuvre it, we will.”
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