ISRO's SpaDeX Achieves Historic Docking

On January 16, 2025, India’s SpaDeX mission successfully achieved autonomous in-space docking between two satellites, SDX01 and SDX02, launched by PSLV-C60 on December 30, 2024.

  • This feat places India among the few nations with space docking capability.
  • The satellites demonstrated key technologies such as docking mechanisms, power transfer, inter-satellite communication, and relative navigation.
  • Post-docking, the satellites will carry out payload operations for two years.
  • The US, Russia, and China are the other three countries to perform space docking; India became the fourth ....
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