Space, the final frontier. As nations attempt to secure strategic and military influence over adversaries, it is beyond the earth’s skies that they look. Superpowers such as the US, Russia, France, the UK and China have had robust space programmes since the end of the Second World War. India joined the race a little later, with research activities intended strictly for civilian use. However, China’s stealthy Anti-Satellite Weapon Test (ASAT) in 2007 initiated a debate about space security in India, surrounded as it is by rogue nations that send out terror threats to its existence.