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Under which of the following missions, India has successfully tested its first-ever Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) Missile capability?

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A-SAT capability is considered a strategic defense asset but comes with global responsibility to prevent space debris hazards.
Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Mission Shakti
  • Mission Agni
  • Mission Raftar
  • Mission Sahas
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This question is about naming India's 2019 anti-satellite missile test. Mission Agni, Mission Raftar and Mission Sahas can all be set aside together, since Agni actually refers to India's long range missile family and the other two names are not linked to any real defence programme of this kind.

The test that shot down a live satellite in low earth orbit was carried out by the DRDO under Mission Shakti in March 2019, making India only the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to demonstrate this capability.

So the correct answer is Mission Shakti.

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The safest way to answer this is to separate the one option that is a genuinely different, unrelated defence programme from the two options that are not real programme names at all.

  1. Mission Shakti: This is the actual codename India used for its anti-satellite missile test, carried out by the DRDO in March 2019 against a satellite in low earth orbit, an event that placed India in a very small group of nations with this capability.
  2. Mission Agni: Agni exists as an Indian missile programme, but its role is strategic deterrence through long range ballistic missiles aimed at terrestrial targets, not anti-satellite interception, so it belongs to a different category of weapon system altogether.
  3. Mission Raftar: There is no verifiable Indian defence programme under this name connected to satellites or missile interception.
  4. Mission Sahas: This name also does not match any known Indian anti-satellite or missile initiative and appears alongside Raftar simply as a plausible sounding distractor.

With Agni set aside as a real but different missile system, and Raftar and Sahas set aside as names without any matching programme, the anti-satellite test itself is tied only to one codename.

So the correct answer is Mission Shakti.

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