NEW DELHI – Daniel Porras, Space Security Fellow, United Nations Institutefor Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva, said India’s claimed Wednesday’s test destroyed a satellite at an altitude of 300 km.
“It was not a good sign for LEO (low earth orbit)… which hastelecommunication and earth observation satellites and also theInternational Space Station”, which cruises at a height of 400 km, he said.
“The test was done at 300 km, so pretty low, meaning most of the debriswill slowly come down. However, lots of objects near that altitude.
Not a good sign for all those LEO constellations.
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Also, if any debris damages other objects, India will be liable under theLiability Convention (if attribution is established),” Porras tweeted.
