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India is the fourth in the world to successfully carry out unmanned satellite docking

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India has become one of the world leaders in space technology, becoming the fourth country to successfully perform unmanned satellite docking. This historic achievement was announced on January 16 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), ANI, a partner of the TV BRICS network, reports.

The ISRO mission was named the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX). The docking process ended with maneuvering from a point at a distance of 15 meters to a point at a distance of 3 meters, followed by successful capture and fixation of the satellites. The agency said that tests on undocking and energy transfer between the devices will begin in the coming days.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the organization’s specialists.

“Congratulations to our ISRO scientists and the entire space industry on the successful demonstration of satellite docking. This is a significant step towards India’s ambitious space missions in the coming years,” the head of the Indian government wrote on social media.

Former ISRO researcher Milswami Annadurai, in turn, noted that the success of the SpaDeX project will help in the implementation of the Chandrayaan-4 mission. According to him, docking will become a key technology in the operation of the space station and the removal of space debris.

It is noted that the main goal of SpaDeX is to prove the possibility of unmanned docking of satellites and energy transfer between them in space conditions.

Source https://tvbrics.com/news/indiya-chetvertoy-v-mire-uspeshno-osushchestvila-bespilotnuyu-stykovku-sputnikov/

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