India successfully tests anti-satellite weapon A-SAT, becomes elite space power: PM Modi
Updated: March 27, 2019 01:18 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on Wednesday said that India has attained anti-satellite capability, becoming the fourth such country in the world. He said that the mission was completed within 3 minutes and destroyed a low-earth orbiting satellite some 300 km away in the sky.