India is an Emerging Space Power (1357)
India is devoting signficant resources to building up its civil and military space program. On the civil side, they have built up and indigenous rocket and satellite production infrastructure and are planning projects to visit the moon and even Mars. On the military side, they are working on building up their ISR satellite capacity and building up their space control and defense capabilities, especially after the Chinese anti-satellite weapons test in January, 2007.
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India is not a Space Power Threat (1358)
India's space program does not present a military threat to the United States. India's Space program is predominantly oriented to civilian development applications and threatens nobody. For a nation which has fought over four major wars since its birth and a variety of insurgents, the decision to continue with a civilian program is not easy. A conscious decision has been made and continued with. Not many can boast of such conviction. The program is also the most transparent in the world.
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