Minister of Science and Technology of the Jitendra Singh Union | Photo credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on successful Monday completed the second satellite coupling under its spadex mission. The Minister of the Union, Jitendra Singh, confirmed the development and expanded his congratulations to the Isro team.
In a publication about X, he said, “slippery to inform that the second coupling of satellites has been successful.” This event marked another significant milestone in the Indian Space Research Program. The PSLV-C60/Spadex mission was launched on December 30, 2024. After launch, the first successful coupling occurred on January 16, 2025 at 6:20 am
#Isro Spadex update:
Followed to inform that the second coupling of the satellites has achieved the successful leg.As reported above, the PSLV-C60 / Spadex mission was successful on December 30, 2024. Subsequently, the satellites were successful for the first time …
– Dr. Jitendra Singh (@drjitendrasingh) April 21, 2025
The satellites were later deactivated on March 13 at 9:20 am Isro has also announced that more experimental procedures are being programmed in the next two weeks. In addition, he wrote: “As reported above, the PSLV-C60 / Spadex mission was successfully launched on December 30, 2024. Subsequently, the satellites were successfully docked for the first time on January 16, 2025 at 06:20 am and they were dismantled successfully on March 13, 2025 at 09:20 am
On March 13, Isro announced the successful end of the space unlocking of its spadex mission. The decoupling process implied a precise sequence of events, which culminated in the separation of the SDX -01 (chaser) and SDX -02 (target) satellites, which were launched on December 30, 2024, using the polar dhaicle satellite lunch) -C60 in) -C60 in) -C60 in) -C60 in) in) -Hariharihariha. SDX-2, the planned liberation of Capture Lever 3 and the disagreement of the SDX-2 capture liver.
After the thesis maneuvers, the Decapture command was broadcast on both SDX-1 and SDX-2, which led to the successful separation of the satellites. Isro successfully completed the coupling of the two Spadex satellites (SDX-01 and SDX-02, in the Eings, in the Eings or January, in the January eings, in the January eings, in January, in January, on the route of the quotas, in the ratio of the quotas). Russia and the United States, in the world, will have spatial coupling technology.
According to the spatial organization, the innovative mission aims to show the technological skill of India in the spacecraft, coupling and lack of critical capacity for future advances, such as satellite service and interplorion.
It is a profitable technology demonstrator mission designed to demonstrate the space coupling using two small spacecraft released by the PSLV. This technology is essential for the spatial ambitions of India, including the sending of an Indian to the moon, which returns samples of the moon and the construction and operation of the Bharatiya Antariksh (BAS) station.
Space coupling technology is essential when multiple rocket releases are required to achieve common mission objectives. The Spadex spacecraft was designed and made by the UR RAO Satellite Center (USC) with the support of other ISRO centers (VSSC, LPSC, SAC, IISU and Leos).
Posted on April 21, 2025