{"id":182,"date":"2025-04-22T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=182"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:12:35","slug":"space-docking-experiment-spadex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/space-docking-experiment-spadex\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaDeX Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SpaDeX Mission Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully completed the second docking of its two satellites \u2014 SDX01 (Chaser) and SDX02 (Target) \u2014 under the SpaDeX (Space Docking Experiment) mission.<\/p>\n<h2>About the SpaDeX Mission<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SpaDeX (Space Docking Experiment)<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<strong>technology demonstration mission<\/strong>\u00a0developed by ISRO to validate the\u00a0<strong>capability of docking and undocking<\/strong>\u00a0two small satellites in\u00a0<strong>low-Earth orbit<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The mission involved two\u00a0<strong>small satellites<\/strong>, each weighing around\u00a0<strong>220 kg<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>SDX01 (Chaser), SDX02 (Target)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These satellites were launched by\u00a0<strong>PSLV-C60<\/strong>\u00a0into a\u00a0<strong>460 km circular orbit<\/strong>\u00a0with an inclination of\u00a0<strong>45 degrees<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Objectives of the SpaDeX Mission<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Primary objective<\/strong>: To\u00a0<strong>develop and demonstrate<\/strong>\u00a0the capability for\u00a0<strong>rendezvous<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>docking<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>undocking<\/strong>\u00a0of spacecraft in\u00a0<strong>orbit<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondary objectives<\/strong>: To demonstrate the\u00a0<strong>transfer of electric power<\/strong>\u00a0between docked spacecraft a crucial component for future\u00a0<strong>in-space operations<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>To develop and validate\u00a0<strong>composite spacecraft control systems<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To test\u00a0<strong>payload operations after undocking<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 important for deep-space missions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>With this achievement,\u00a0<strong>India becomes the fourth country<\/strong>\u00a0after the\u00a0<strong>United States<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Russia<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>China<\/strong>\u00a0to successfully\u00a0<strong>conduct satellite docking operations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/spadex-mission-isro-successfully-executes-second-docking-of-satellites\/article69473419.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaDeX by ISRO is a tech demo mission to validate autonomous docking and undocking of two small satellites in low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":45928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,216,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-spadex-mission","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}