After successfully testing an anti-satellite (A-Sat) missile in March and initiating the raising of a new triservice Defence Space Agency soon after, India is now planning to conduct its first-ever simulated space warfare exercise next month.
Named ‘IndSpaceEx’, the exercise will basically be a ‘table-top war-game’, with all stakeholders from the military and scientific community taking part in it, but it does underline the seriousness with which India is taking the need to counter likely threats to its space assets from countries like China.
After successfully testing an anti-satellite (A-Sat) missile in March and initiating the raising of a new triservice Defence Space Agency soon after, India is now planning to conduct its first-ever simulated space warfare exercise next month.
Named ‘IndSpaceEx’, the exercise will basically be a ‘table-top war-game’, with all stakeholders from the military and scientific community taking part in it, but it does underline the seriousness with which India is taking the need to counter likely threats to its space assets from countries like China.