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Proof: Mission Shakti: How India’s 2019 anti-sat missile test in space caught US off guard

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T22:40:35Z","headline":"Mission Shakti: How India’s 2019 anti-sat missile test in space caught US off guard","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"timesofindia","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/news/when-indias-anti-satellite-missile-test-in-space-in-2019-caught-us-intelligence-agencies-off-guard/articleshow/134716715.cms","v":1}

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b08888a37df720104d0567786c602a87039ae8be6fa8fb4bb159d23cff0d7b3f

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970090, mined 2026-10-05 22:57 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 22:45 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:not-found.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-b08888a37df7.json prints b08888a37df720104d0567786c602a87039ae8be6fa8fb4bb159d23cff0d7b3f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-b08888a37df7.json and headline-b08888a37df7.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-b08888a37df7.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.