A man watches Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation on a local news channel in New Delhi on March 27, 2019. India on March 27 destroyed a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test that had put the country in the space"super league", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
— AFP: India shot down a live satellite in a test that shows off the country’s space capabilities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday.India “stands tall as a space power” and has become only the fourth country to acquire such a specialised capability, Modi said.The “Mission Shakti” test was led by the weapons developer Defence Research and Development Organisation .