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		</div><p>NASA has criticised India’s satellite destruction test for endangering astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS).</p>
<p>On March 27, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced that it had managed to shoot down one of its own low-orbit satellites, declaring that the country was now a “space power”.</p>
<p>The risk of collision to the ISS was increased by 44% over a period of 10 days, the American space agency’s administrator Jim Bridenstine warned staff on Monday, after identifying 400 different pieces of orbital debris from the event.</p>
<p><em>“It’s unacceptable and NASA needs to be very clear about what its impact to us is,”</em> Mr Bridenstine said.</p>
<p><em>“Intentionally creating orbital debris fields is not compatible with human space flight.”</em></p>
<p>NASA is now tracking around 60 pieces that are 10 centimetres or bigger, with 24 that have gone above the apogee of the ISS, which Mr Bridenstine described as a “terrible, terrible thing”.</p>
<p><em>“We need to be clear with everybody in the world, we’re the only agency in the federal government that has human lives at stake here,”</em> he explained.</p>
<p><em>“And it is not acceptable for us to allow people to create orbital debris fields that put at risk our people.”</em></p>
<p>India’s ministry of external affairs insists that the risk from Mission Shakti is low, saying: <em>“The test was done in the lower atmosphere to ensure that there is no space debris.</em></p>
<p><em>“Whatever debris that is generated will decay and fall back onto the earth within weeks.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Bridenstine admitted this was true, adding: <em>“It’s low enough in Earth orbit that over time this will all dissipate.”</em></p>
<p>India is the fourth country to have demonstrated anti-satellite weapons (Asat), after the US, Russia and China.</p>
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