The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has achieved a successful second satellite docking during its Spadex missions, according to Union Minister Jitendra Singh.
He said more experiments are planned in the next two weeks.
“Glad to inform that the second docking of satellites has been accomplished successfully (sic),” Singh, the minister of state for science and technology, atomic energy and space, said in a post on ‘X’.
He remembered that the PSLV-C60/Space Docking Experiment (SPADEX) mission was launched on December 30, 2024.
Following this, the satellites were successfully docked for the first time on January 16 and undocked successfully on March 13, according to the minister.
“Subsequently, power transfer from SDX-02 to SDX-01 satellite as well as vice versa was also exercised and accomplished on April 21. The experiment involved operating a heater element in one of the satellites through power from the other satellite,” it said.
