NASA's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, says India's satellite shattered into pieces of debris that pose an 'unacceptable' threat to ISS astronauts.
A simulation of how space debris might have been created by India's"Mission Shakti" anti-satellite missile test on Wednesday.NASA says India has threatened the International Space Station and the astronauts on board by shooting down a satellite with a missile in March.
India said that it deliberately chose to destroy a satellite in low orbit with the goal of keeping the debris from harming the station or other satellites and that the debris would fall back to Earth and disintegrate, but previous cases suggest that could take a long time. NASA called India's destruction of a satellite in March a"terrible, terrible thing" and said the space debris created by the explosion should be considered a threat to the International Space Station and the astronauts on board.with a missile on March 27, a move Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed as one that established India"as a space power."on April 1 that it posed an"unacceptable" threat to astronauts on board the ISS.
While the station has remained safe since the satellite was destroyed, Bridenstine was critical of the India for what he said was a threat that would last some time, and for potentially inspiring other countries to take similar actions."That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris at an apogee that goes above the International Space Station," Bridenstine added.
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