Jim Bridenstine was speaking a week after India’s space agency successfully tested its ASAT missile.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said India could have put the International Space Station at risk by testing its anti-satellite missile. Speaking to employees at a townhall meeting, Bridenstine called the demonstration a “terrible, terrible thing” as it led to the creation of even more space debris—bits of rockets and satellites that have broken away and now orbit Earth.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the successful test of the ASAT missile last Wednesday. He said the device had been used to shoot down a low-orbit satellite—making India the fourth country in the world to have successfully deployed weapons in space: “We are not just capable to defend on land, water and air but now also in space. I congratulate all scientists who have made this possible and made India a much stronger nation," NDTV quotes him as saying.
“All of those are placed at risk when these kinds of events happen, and when one country does it, then other countries feel like they have to do it as well.”
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