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Friday, August 8, 2025
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Topic: space

A-SAT success revs up India’s ballistic missile defence programme

With the A-SAT, India has developed a missile that can take out targets in extended ranges of the exo-atmosphere.

Mission Shakti cements India’s position at the ‘Space NPT’ high table

The timing of the A-SAT missile test is reflective of New Delhi’s desire to not allow a repeat of the NPT experience.

‘India declares war on space’ & other absurd things TV anchors said after Modi’s A-SAT speech

Why was the missile tested now? Why did PM Modi have to make the announcement? Modi neither said nor did the TV news channels ask.

India’s A-SAT missile strike added to space debris like Kanpur adds sewage to Ganga

By conducting anti-satellite test, India has joined the club of irresponsible nations that lack global citizenship ethos and suitable environmental concerns.

India set to develop ‘credible’ space deterrence after A-SAT test without fear of sanctions

Experts say no question of sanctions on India after the test 'because there is simply nothing on international regime on this'.

India takes space leap, shoots down satellite 300 km away: Modi

PM Modi announced that India has become only the fourth country after US, Russia, China to have this capability.

Russian cosmonaut who pulled off first spacewalk today 54 years ago beat death many times

Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space on 18 March 1965, but the return to Earth of him and his partner was nothing short of a miracle.

When it comes to space activities in India, are no laws better than bad laws?

The government had put the draft Space Activities Bill in the public domain, inviting suggestions. The bill was never introduced in this Lok Sabha. 

Govt clears Rs 10,000-crore Gaganyaan mission to send 3 Indians to space by 2022

Officially called the Human Spaceflight Programme, the first Gaganyaan launch will be in December 2020 to test an unoccupied vehicle.

Just exactly where is the Final Frontier in space anyway?

Who gets to decide where space begins? The boundary shouldn’t be an arbitrary one.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.