{"id":86098,"date":"2019-04-07T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86098"},"modified":"2019-04-07T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:28:22","slug":"india-now-has-anti-satellite-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86098","title":{"rendered":"India Now Has Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85826\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ICBM-intercept-test-May-2017-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ICBM-intercept-test-May-2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ICBM-intercept-test-May-2017-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ICBM-intercept-test-May-2017-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ICBM-intercept-test-May-2017.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intercept test, against ICBM target, conducted circa May 2017. (Defense News).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That photo is one of ours being tested against one of ours. We already have the anti-satellite (ASAT )missiles in place.<\/p>\n<p>India announced that it has sent a missile up to destroy one of its satellites that had either shut down or was intended to be a target from the beginning, and that the test was successful, as shown in the animated video.<\/p>\n<p>Video is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=3&amp;v=Pzhtc-rFbvM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=3&amp;v=Pzhtc-rFbvM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article at Sky &amp; Telescope is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-news\/what-indias-anti-satellite-test-means-for-space-debris\/\">https:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-news\/what-indias-anti-satellite-test-means-for-space-debris\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the article from Sky &amp; Telescope says, we\u2019ve been doing stuff like this since 1985. India has now caught up with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That photo is one of ours being tested against one of ours. We already have the &hellip; <a title=\"India Now Has Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Missiles\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86098\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India Now Has Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Missiles<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86099,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions\/86099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}