The Narendra Modi government has commissioned a project that aims to protect its satellites from attacks after a spacecraft from a neighbouring country came dangerously close to one of India’s last year, Bloomberg has reported, quoting sources.

The report said that the incident, which went unreported at the time, involved one of ISRO’s satellites orbiting about 500-600 kilometres above the earth, carrying out tasks like mapping and monitoring of objects on earth that could have military applications. A spacecraft from a neighbouring country came within one km of the Indian satellite, sources quoted by Bloomberg said.

Although there was no collision, the unusually close approach by the spacecraft to the Indian satellite could have been a deliberate move to demonstrate the capabilities o

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