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Antariksha Abhyas 2024
- 13 Nov 2024
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Recently, the Defence Space Agency under the Ministry of Defence conducted India's first-ever Space Exercise 'Antariksha Abhyas' in New Delhi.
- Objective: Simulating and analysing threats to and from space-based assets and services to secure national strategic objectives in space.
- Key Focus Areas:
- Enhancing the integration of space capability into military operations.
- Providing a better understanding of operational dependencies on space assets.
- Identifying vulnerabilities and handling disruptions or denial of space-based services.
- Military Use of Space: Armed forces use space capabilities for detecting border infiltration, artillery movements and missile launches.
- India’s Capability: In March 2019, India successfully tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) test designed to destroy or disable enemy satellites in orbit under Mission Shakti.
- Regulation: According to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, outer space should be used only for peaceful operations.
- The Kármán line, 100 kilometres above mean sea level, is considered the boundary where Earth ends and outer space begins.
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