Spacecraft Docking Successfully Completed: India has made a new record in space. ISRO’s SpaDeX mission has achieved historic docking success. ISRO successfully placed two satellites in Earth’s orbit for the first time. With this, India has become the fourth country to achieve this feat after America, Russia and China. This is truly a proud moment for India. PM Modi has congratulated ISRO for this historic achievement.
This is a historic moment: ISRO
ISRO also congratulated its entire team for this historic achievement and said that the docking process of the Spadex mission has been successfully completed. This is a historic moment. The process of reducing the hold point from 15 meters to 3 meters was completed. India became the fourth country to achieve successful docking in space.
The trial ended on January 12
On Sunday, January 12, both Spadex satellites, the chaser and the target, came very close to each other. Both satellites were brought closer by first 15 meters and then 3 meters. A day before this, on Saturday, the distance between the two satellites involved in the Space Docking Experiment (Spadex) mission was 230 meters. Even before this, this mission was postponed two to three times.
ISRO launched this mission on 30 December
Space Docking Process The objective of the mission is to demonstrate docking technology in space, which is important for India’s future space endeavours. Now this mission will decide the success of the space station and Chandrayaan-4. The mission was successfully launched by ISRO on December 30 using a PSLV-C60 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
India’s first mission that will require docking may be Chandrayaan-4. The mission will bring samples from the Moon to Earth. The reentry module of this mission will be designed to withstand the heat of the Earth’s atmosphere. A transfer module carrying samples from the Moon will dock with the reentry module in Earth’s atmosphere.
Docking will also be required to establish the Indian space station. ISRO launched two small satellites – SDX01 (Chaser) and SDX02 (Lakshya) on December 30. These are placed in low-Earth circular orbits at a distance of 20 km. After this they slowly came closer to each other and the docking process was carried out.
What is docking and why is it important?
Docking involves bringing two fast-moving spacecraft into the same orbit, then gradually bringing them closer and finally joining them together. This capability is essential to accomplish missions that require heavy spacecraft. A spacecraft that cannot be launched into space by a single launch vehicle.
