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ISRO launches critical space docking mission

31Dec

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ISRO launches critical space docking mission

New Delhi, December 31, 2024. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Monday night launched its workhorse PSLV rocket with several satellites, including two that will carry out an ambitious autonomous orbital rendezvous and docking experiment that only a handful of space agencies have mastered. The Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), ascending aboard the PSLV-C60 rocket from the windswept launch pad at Sriharikota at 10pm, achieved its most important milestone precisely 910 seconds after lift-off. At that moment, two spacecraft, each a marvel of precision engineering weighing 220kg, were delivered into an eastward orbit 476km above Earth’s surface. In a precisely orchestrated sequence revealed through Isro’s live transmission, SDX02 (SpaDeXB) emerged first from its berth, ...

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