https://spacewatch.global/tag/indian-defence-research-and-development-organisation-drdo/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:00:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/indian-defence-research-and-development-organisation-drdo/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/indian-space-wars-indias-drdo-head-outlines-counterspace-capability-ambitions/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13466 Following its 27 March 2019 direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) missile test that destroyed a target satellite in low-Earth orbit (LEO), the head of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) – G. Satheesh Reddy – has outlined to Indian media his organisation's counterspace technology ambitions for the coming years.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/nasa-alarmed-at-indian-space-missile-test/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13353 NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine, has expressed his concern in the days after India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out the country’s first anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test against an out-of-service Indian satellite orbiting the Earth at 300 kilometres altitude on Wednesday, 27 March 2019, at 11.16 am Indian Time]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/space-wars-india-successfully-tests-anti-satellite-weapon-in-mission-shakti/ Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13252 India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out the country's first anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test against an out-of-service Indian satellite orbiting the Earth at 300 kilometres altitude on Wednesday, 27 March 2019, at 11.16 am Indian Time.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/indian-military-space-isro-launches-microsat-r-imaging-satellite-for-drdo/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:00:02 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12559 A military Earth observation satellite made by several laboratories within India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and called MicroSat-R was launched on board an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on 24 January 2019 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/indias-military-to-create-defence-space-and-cyber-agencies-as-part-of-reforms/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 05:00:29 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10950 The Indian government's Cabinet Committee on Security has approved the creation of the Defence Cyber Agency, the Defence Space Agency, and the Special Operations Division as part of ongoing defence reforms designed to deal with emerging and new threats, according to government sources quoted in the Indian media.]]>