{"id":32067,"date":"2024-11-12T18:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=32067"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:05:56","slug":"indias-1st-space-defense-exercise-antariksha-abhyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/12-11-2024\/indias-1st-space-defense-exercise-antariksha-abhyas","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s 1st Space Defense Exercise Antariksha Abhyas\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3\/Space and Defence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The first-ever space exercise, <strong>\u2018Antariksha Abhyas \u2013 2024<\/strong>,\u2019 hosted by the <strong>Defence Space Agency (DSA)<\/strong>, has commenced in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Defence Space Agency (DSA)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Created in 2018, it is an integrated <strong>tri-services agency<\/strong> of the Indian Armed Forces <strong>headquartered<\/strong> <strong>in Bengaluru<\/strong>, Karnataka.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is tasked with operating the <strong>space-warfare<\/strong> and Satellite Intelligence assets of India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Significance\/Need of the Exercise<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exercise Antariksha Abhyas is a <strong>first of its kind exercise<\/strong> being conducted and is expected to help secure <strong>national strategic objectives in space<\/strong> and integrate India\u2019s space capability in military operations.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Space assets are essential in modern defense but increasingly vulnerable to threats like <strong>anti-satellite weapons, cyber-attacks, and space debris<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As space is becoming increasingly congested, contested, and competitive, the space exercise intends to<strong> identify vulnerabilities<\/strong> in conduct of operations in the <strong>event of denial or disruptions <\/strong>of space based services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebecf0\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Do you know?<\/strong><br>&#8211; In March 2019, India successfully conducted <strong>Mission Shakti<\/strong> (an anti-satellite missile test) and demonstrated its capability to<strong> intercept and destroy a satellite<\/strong> in outer space based on complete <strong>indigenous technology<\/strong>.<br>&#8211; With this test, India joined an exclusive group of space faring nations consisting of the <strong>USA, Russia and China<\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2072518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever space exercise, \u2018Antariksha Abhyas \u2013 2024,\u2019 hosted by the Defence Space Agency (DSA), has commenced in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32068,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32067\/revisions\/32068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}