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Chinese test added 600 objects in space

A Chinese anti-satellite missile test has added 600 "objects" (debris) in space and Beijing needs to be restrained by international space powers from carrying out similar attempts, Indian space officials said.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

BANGALORE: A Chinese anti-satellite missile test has added 600 "objects" (debris) in space and Beijing needs to be restrained by international space powers from carrying out similar attempts, Indian space officials said.

"They (China) have added 600 objects (debris) by one shot, which according to international guidelines, they are not supposed to have done," Secretary in the Department of Space, G Madhavan Nair said.

"If every country tries to attempt and destroy another satellite and (space-based) resources, it's almost like a war-like situation," Nair, also chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, said here. "It has to be tackled at the international level and convince (Beijing) that it should not be attempted (again)."

China launched a missile in January to kill a satellite. Reports said Beijing shot down an ageing weather satellite with a ground-based missile, about 860 km above Earth.

Nair said the Chinese test has contributed significantly to space debris.

"Today in the 500-1000 km orbit, nearly 9,000 objects are flying in their trajectory. So there is the probability of hitting any satellite," he said.

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