ISRO: What is space docking? What will be the benefit of India by adding two spacecraft to space? Learn

ISRO Spadex Mission: Spadex mission of Indian space agency ISRO was successful. The good news that the countrymen were waiting for several days came on Thursday morning. ISRO said that it has successfully connected two spacrafts in space, which is called Space Docking. India has now become the fourth country in the world. This success was only in the name of America, Russia and China. What is space docking and what will India benefit from this? Let’s know.

Such success

According to reports, ISRO did not have any problem adding two spacecrafts in space. The distance of 15 meters between the two spacecrafts was reduced by three meters. They were again stopped and finally connected to each other.

Spadex docking update:

Post Docking, Control of two satellites as a single object is successful.

Undocking and Power Transfer Checks to Follow in Coming Days.

#Spadex #ISRO

– ISRO (@ISRO) January 16, 2025

What is space docking

Any spacraft in space rotates in an orbit. In the process of space docking, two spacecrafts are brought into the same orbit. Then they are brought close to each other and connected. If you want to understand it with an example, then you must have heard about the international space station, which is a specistraft in a way. Whenever a new team of astronauts goes there, a spacraft is launched from the earth and docked with the ISS, only then Astronauts are able to reach there.

What works are done by space docking

Astronauts are docked in space with another spacecraft through space docking. Space docking is also used to supply them. Apart from this, space docking technology was adopted while making ISS itself. China has also created its space station by doing so. In both countries, modules of space stations were launched at different times and then they were added to space.

What is the benefit of India from space docking

India will have the first advantage of Space Docking in Chandrayaan-4 mission. Under the Chandrayaan-4 mission, India wants to collect samples from the moon and bring them to the earth. Scientists plan to remove a spacraft on the moon and do it with a rocket, which will bring a sample of the moon on the earth.