The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to close off 2024 with a bang. ISRO is all set to make history with the launch of the Space Docking Experiment (S✃paDeX) on Monday.
This mis🌜sion would inv𝓡olve launching two specially designed satellites using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Withꦗ this mission, ISRO looks to demonstrate the art of satellite ღdocking in space.
If the launc✤h is successful, India would join the๊ United States, Russia and China as the only countries to have mastered this technique of docking satellites.
About The Mission
This mission will mark the first time ISRO will attempt🍒 in-space docking.
As per the space agency, SpaDeX has been designed to develop and demonstrate the technology nee⛄ded 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 missio🍌ns, including 🦩satellite servicing, space station operations, and interplanetary missions,” said ISRO.
The SpaDeX launch is expected to lay 🎶the foundation for India's future space missions such as -
Pr𒅌eparing f꧂or the Gaganyaan human spaceflight program
Enabling Chandrayaan-4 lunar samplᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe return missions
Developing the Bharatiya Antariꦚksh Station (BAS), India's proposed space station35
SpaDeX Launch Tonight
The SpaඣDeX mission will be launched today - December 30, 2024 - marking ISRO's last mission of the year.
The launch is scheduled at 9.58ജ PM. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
The PSLV-C60 will launch the two small spacecraft Chaser and Target also named SDX01 and S💎DX02 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 after the launch, followed by SDX01 spacecraf෴t a few seconds later.
