ISRO News: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch two satellites on Monday night. The purpose of these satellites is to test the technology of joining and separating (docking and undocking) in space. If successful in this, India will become the fourth country in the world to achieve this feat.
Space agency officials said that ISRO’s rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), will place two satellites SDX-1 and SDX-II in a circular orbit of 476 km. After this, ‘Space Docking Experiment’ (SPADEX) will be conducted through these satellites in the first week of January.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh gave information
Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said, “This mission will include India in the group of countries which have successfully used docking technology in space. This mission will prove to be an important step for India’s future efforts. Which includes bringing rocks and soil from the Moon to Earth, the proposed Indian space station and landing an astronaut on the surface of the Moon. Till now only America, Russia and China have mastered the space docking technology.
ISRO official said this
An ISRO official said, the main objective of the Spacex mission is to test the technology of docking and undocking of two small satellites (SDX01 and SDX02), which will be joined together in low-Earth orbit. The second objective of the mission is to prove how power can be transferred between docked satellites. These technologies are essential for in-space robotics, overall spacecraft control after separation and docking, and payload operations.
Let us tell you that SDX 01 satellite is equipped with High Resolution Camera (HRC). At the same time, SDX02 has two payloads, Miniature Multispectral (MMX) payload and Radiation Monitor (Redmon). ISRO said that these payloads will provide high-resolution images, natural resource monitoring, vegetation studies and radiation environment measurements in orbit, which can be used in further missions.