New Delhi: "Most of the debris from the Anti-Satellite test has decayed and the remaining will also decay in a short period," DRDO Chairman Satheesh Reddy has said.
He said that the DRDO was continuously monitoring the situation but it was difficult to predict exactly how many days the remaining debris will take to decay.
Reddy was speaking on technology for national security at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) in New Delhi on Friday.
After conducting the Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test, Reddy at a press conference on April 6th had said that all the debris should decay within 45 days.
On March 27th, India shot down one of its own satellites in space with an A-SAT missile, which made it only the fourth country after the US, the USSR and China to have used such a weapon.
After the test, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine had spoken about the possible threat to the International Space Station (ISS) from the debris as the test had created 69 pieces of orbital debris.
Reddy had said that when India conducted the test, the space station was over French Guyana.
"The risk analysis simulation which was based on an internationally accepted software also showed that there was no threat to the space station," added Reddy.
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