New Delhi, April 21 || Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Monday said that the ISRO’s SpaDEX mission has successfully achieved second docking of satellites.
In a post on X social media platform, the minister said he is "glad to inform that the second docking of satellites has been accomplished successfully".
“As informed earlier, the PSLV-C60 / SPADEX mission was successfully launched on 30 December 2024. Thereafter the satellites were successfully docked for the first time on 16 January 2025 at 06:20 AM and successfully undocked on 13 March 2025 at 09:20 AM,” he mentioned.
The minister further said that further experiments are planned in the next two weeks.
In January, with the successful docking of the satellites of the SpaDEX mission, India became the fourth nation to ace the space docking technology.
ISRO informed the merging of two small spacecraft -- SDX01, the Chaser, and SDX02, the Target -- weighing about 220 kg each. The satellites were part of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission, which lifted off aboard the PSLV-C60 rocket, from Sriharikota on December 30.
India is now the fourth country, after the US, Russia, and China, to master the docking technology. The docking technology was indigenously developed and has been named the ‘Bharatiya Docking System’.