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WHAT JUST HAPPENED

• To enhance the capabilities of the armed forces to fight wars in space, the government has approved the setting up of a new agency which will develop sophisticated weapon systems and technologies.
• Defence Space Research Agency (DSRA)
• The Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by the Prime Minister has cleared the setting up of the Defence Space Research Agency (DSRA) which has been entrusted with the task of creating space warfare weapon systems and technologies.

DEFENCE SPACE RESEARCH AGENCY

• The agency would be provided with a team of scientists and would be working in close coordination with the tri-services integrated Defence staff officers.

NOTES

• The DSA has been created “to help the country fight wars in the space”.
• The Defence Space Agency is being set up in Bengaluru under an Air Vice Marshal-rank officer and will gradually take over the space-related capabilities of the three forces.

SPACE EXERCISE

• India to hold it’s first-ever simulated space warfare exercise
• It has been named – IndSpaceEx. This exercise will basically be a ‘table-top war-game’, with all stakeholders from the military and scientific community taking part in it.
• All military stakeholders, including those from the scientific community, will participate in it. Main objective of the exercise is to understand the possible challenges in space warfare and to counter China’s growing influence in this domain, which poses a major threat to India’s national security interest.

MILITARISATION OF SPACE

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