Before the new year, ISRO did a big miracle, India became the fourth country to successfully launch Spadex.

New Delhi: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has achieved a big success just before the New Year. ISRO’s Spadex mission was launched from PSLV. With this, on Monday night, India took a big step towards mastering the technique of joining two spacecraft in space, which is called space-docking. ISRO placed two small satellites weighing 220 kg in orbit.

India moves forward in SpaDeX mission

Under the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission, these satellites were launched from the Space Center in Sriharikota aboard a PSLV-C60 rocket shortly after 10 pm. About 15 minutes later, they were placed in a 475 kilometer circular orbit. The first satellite separated 15.1 minutes after launch and the second 15.2 minutes later.

After America, Russia, China, India is also in this special club

This achievement will put India in the elite group of countries like the US, Russia and China who have mastered this technology. If successful, India will become the fourth country to achieve this feat after the US, Russia and China. This mission is essential for future space exploration, including bringing samples from the Moon, the Indian Space Station and landing astronauts on the Moon.

This technology can be used in future space missions. These also include missions to the Moon and Mars. According to M Shankaran, Director of UR Rao Satellite Center (URSC), these two satellites named ‘Chaser’ and ‘Target’ will initially be at a short distance from each other. Over the next few days, these satellites will move further away from each other in a carefully planned manner. After this ISRO will try to connect them.

ISRO Chief S. Somnath said after the launch, ‘The rocket has placed the satellites in the correct orbit. Satellites are moving one after the other. Over the next few days their distance will increase to about 20 km, then we will reduce the distance and attempt to dock. We are hoping to complete the docking next week. The date fixed for this is January 7. In addition to the main docking experiment, 24 new payloads have also been flown into the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM). These include many unprecedented experiments.

India’s first astrobiology payload is also included in it. An experiment from the RV College of Engineering will study the behavior of gut bacteria in space. An experiment by Amity University will investigate the growth of spinach in microgravity.