The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to close off 2024 with a bang. ISRO is all set to make histo🎃ry with the launch of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) on Monday.
With this ꧒mission, ISRO looks to demonstrate the art of satꦏellite docking in space.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to close off 2024 with a bang. ISRO is all set to make histo🎃ry with the launch of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) on Monday.
This mission would invol🌜ve launching two specially designed satellites using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
With this mission, ISRO looks to demonstrate the art of satellite docking 𝓡in space.
If the launch is successful, India wou♈ld join the United States, Russia and China as the only countries to have mastered this technique of docking satellites💮.
This mission will m🃏ark the first time ISRO will attempt in🅺-space docking.
As per the space agency, SpaDeX has been designed to develop and demonstrate the technology needed for docking and undocking in space with the use of two small satellites🔯.
“SpaDeX will serve as a milestone in advancing India’s capabilities in space docking, a critical technology for future space missions, including satellite servicing, space station operations, and interpla꧑netary missions,” said ISRO.
The SpaDeX launch is expected💯 to lay the foundation for India's future space missions sꦜuch as -
Preparing fꦇor the Gaganyaan human spaceflight p🐬rogram
Enabling Chandraya🦩an-4 lunar sample return missions
Developing the Bharatiya A🌱ntariksh Station (BAS), India's proposed space station35
The SpaDeX mission will beও launched today - December 30, 2024 - marking ISRO's last mission of the yea🎃r.
The launch is scheduled at 9.58 P🎀M. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
The PSLV-C6🌠0 will launch the two small spacecraft Chaser and Target also named SDX01 and SDX02 weighing about 220 kg each into a 470 km circular orbit at 55-degree inclination separately.
SDX02 spacecraft will be the first to separate 15 minutes ൩after the launch, followed by SDX01 spacecraft a few seconds later.