{"id":891,"date":"2019-03-27T17:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2020-02-09T17:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T12:03:39","slug":"mission-shakti-india-4th-nation-to-enter-elite-space-power-club-with-anti-satellite-weapon-announces-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/mission-shakti-india-4th-nation-to-enter-elite-space-power-club-with-anti-satellite-weapon-announces-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Shakti: India 4th nation to enter elite space power club with anti-satellite weapon, announces PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HIGHLIGHTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>After US, Russia and China, India becomes 4th nation to possess an ASAT weapon<\/li><li>On March 27, India achieved a historic feat by taking down a live satellite<\/li><li>PM Modi made a surprise address at 12:30 to make the declare India as part of the elite space power club<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation at noon on \nWednesday and announced that India has officially entered the elite \nspace power club with the successful targeting of a live satellite with \nan anti-satellite weapon (A-SAT). India is the fourth nation in the \nworld to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modi said, &#8220;Mission Shakti operation \nwas a difficult target to achieve which was completed successfully \nwithin three minutes of launch today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He announced that a few hours ago, India has successfully taken down a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/fyi\/story\/pm-narendra-modi-address-low-earth-orbit-1487548-2019-03-27\" target=\"_blank\">low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite<\/a> at the height of 300 km within just 3 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, PM Modi said India has become the 4th nation in the world after US, Russia and China to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/fyi\/story\/what-is-anti-satellite-weapon-india-successfully-tests-asat-missile-capability-under-mission-shakti-1487549-2019-03-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">satellite weapon<\/a> that can take down enemy satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This\n mission of India does not violate any international norms or laws of \nsecurity. This weapon aims to embolden India&#8217;s national security and is \nonly a step in ensuring peace,&#8221; said PM Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that Mission Shakti was not aimed at any country and is only a measure to ensure security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM\n Modi added, &#8220;Today, we have enough satellites that are contributing in \nvarious segments such as agriculture, disaster management, \ncommunication, weather, navigation etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Narendra Modi \ncongratulated India on becoming an elite space power and said there \ncannot be a bigger moment of pride for Indians at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modi also congratulated all DRDO scientists and all others who helped India achieve this major feat.Also Read | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/trending-news\/story\/demonetisation-again-pm-modi-s-surprise-address-takes-twitter-by-storm-1487506-2019-03-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demonetisation again? PM Modi&#8217;s surprise address takes Twitter by storm<\/a>Watch | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/video\/india-shot-down-low-earth-orbit-satellite-pm-narendra-modi-1487501-2019-03-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India shot down low-Earth orbit satellite: PM Narendra Modi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledgekart.in\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS After US, Russia and China, India becomes 4th nation to possess an ASAT weapon On March 27, India achieved a historic feat by taking down a live satellite PM&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-g-k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgekart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}