ISRO News | ISRO Achieves Big Milestone, Succeeds In Docking 2 Indian Satellites In Space
On Thursday morning the Indian space agency finally succeeded in docking or mating two Indian satellites in space as part of the Space Docking Experiment or SpaDeX. This was the fourth attempt when Indian scientists finally hit Bullseye.At about 10 am ISRO announced `Docking Success. Spacecraft docking successfully completed! A historic moment. Let’s walk through the SpaDeX docking process: Manoeuvre from 15m to 3m hold point completed. Docking initiated with precision, leading to successful spacecraft capture. Retraction completed smoothly, followed by rigidisation for stability. Docking successfully completed. India became the 4th country to achieve successful Space Docking. Congratulations to the entire team! Congratulations to India!’ Docking is a very complex process and ISRO attempted it cautiously doing several trials over a fortnight.
