The Indian Area Analysis Organisation (ISRO) has postponed its Area Docking Experiment (SpaDex) mission which was scheduled for Thursday, after the satellites drifted greater than anticipated throughout a manoeuvre, ISRO mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.
That is the second time that the docking experiment has been postponed.
It was initially scheduled for January 7.
In a publish on X, ISRO mentioned, “Whereas making a maneuver to achieve 225 m between satellites, the drift was discovered to be greater than anticipated publish non-visibility interval.”
Whereas making a maneuver to achieve 225 m between satellites the drift was discovered to be greater than anticipated, publish non-visibility interval.
The deliberate docking for tomorrow is postponed. Satellites are protected.
Keep tuned for updates.#ISRO #SPADEX
— ISRO (@isro) January 8, 2025
“The deliberate docking for tomorrow is postponed. Satellites are protected,” it added.
Earlier, on Monday, the ISRO had postponed the docking of its SpaDex mission program, initially scheduled for January 7, 2025. The brand new date for the docking has been set for January 9, 2025. ISRO has not supplied any particular purpose for the schedule change.
On December 30, ISRO achieved a historic feat by launching PSLV-C60 with SpaDeX and progressive payloads.
The SpaDeX mission is an economical expertise demonstrator mission for the demonstration of in-space docking utilizing two small spacecraft launched by PSLV. The first goal of the SpaDeX mission is to develop and show the expertise wanted for the rendezvous, docking, and undocking of two small spacecraft (SDX01, which is the Chaser, and SDX02, the Goal, nominally) in a low-Earth round orbit.
Union Minister of State (Impartial Cost) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh, final week mentioned that the SpaDeX mission was named “Bharatiya Docking Know-how” as a result of it’s purely an indigenous mission, and India is finishing up the primary such experiment associated to docking expertise.
The Union MoS additional acknowledged that SpaDeX’s mission very a lot aligns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat.”
(This story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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