NASA Says India’s Satellite Destruction Created Threat to International Space Station

The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) GSAT-9 on board the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09), launches in Sriharikota in the state of Andhra Pradesh on May 5, 2017. Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images

NASA said India’s destruction of a satellite last week posed a threat to the International Space Station and the astronauts on board.

Last week, India intentionally destroyed one of its satellites with a missile, which, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, made India “a space power.”