{"id":202843,"date":"2024-12-31T06:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/india-launches-2-spadex-satellites-on-ambitious-space-docking-test-for-future-moon-mission-space-station"},"modified":"2024-12-31T06:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:23:01","slug":"india-launches-2-spadex-satellites-on-ambitious-space-docking-test-for-future-moon-mission-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/india-launches-2-spadex-satellites-on-ambitious-space-docking-test-for-future-moon-mission-space-station","title":{"rendered":"India launches 2 SpaDeX satellites on ambitious space docking test for future moon mission, space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OBGAiJrjJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy to announce the successful accomplishment of the launch of PSLV 60 for the SpaDeX mission,\u201d ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said shortly after the launch in a live webcast. \u201cThe rocket has placed the satellites in the right orbit.\u201d If all goes well, the first docking attempt could occur by Jan. 7, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The SpaDeX mission is made up of two <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/24839-satellites.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/24839-satellites.html\">satellites<\/a>, a Target and a Chaser, on a mission to test autonomous docking technology in orbit. But ISRO hopes to do more than just test automatic docking gear.<\/p>\n<p>The mission also includes a secondary payload module with 24 different experiments aboard, including a small robotic arm, which are riding aboard the PSLV rocket\u2019s fourth stage independent of the SpaDeX satellites. Scientists hope to test the arm and other payloads after docking in a payload operations demonstration while also test dual spacecraft control and power transfer between the docked spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy to announce the successful accomplishment of the launch of PSLV 60 for the SpaDeX mission,\u201d ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said shortly after the launch in a live webcast. \u201cThe rocket has placed the satellites in the right orbit.\u201d If all goes well, the first docking attempt could occur by Jan. 7, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}