PSLV-CA | SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment)
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
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Indian Space Research Organization
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore. Its vision is to "harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration."
SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment)
SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) technology mission to demonstrate autonomous docking between 2 spacecraft in orbit. The mission will involve two spacecraft (Chaser and Target) rendezvous and docking together, plus testing attitude control of the combined spacecraft under docked conditions. The Chaser and Target spacecraft will then be separated for operating other payload. The mission is critical to develop rendezvous and docking abilities for ISRO’s future human spaceflight and lunar sample return missions.
PSLV-CA
Height 44.00 Meters
Max Stages 4
Mass To GTO 1200 kg
Liftoff Thrust 4847 kN
Diameter 2.80 Meters
Mass To LEO 3800 kg
Liftoff Mass 230 Tonnes
Launch Success 18
Consecutive Success 18
Maiden Flight 2007-04-23
Launch Failures 0
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-31T04:28:00+0000
Launch success.
hitura-nobad
2024-12-30T16:46:00+0000
Both payloads deployed.
hitura-nobad
2024-12-30T16:30:00+0000
Liftoff!
LL2
2024-12-30T16:00:00+0000
Official Webcast by ISRO Official has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-30T06:20:00+0000
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-23T10:32:00+0000
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-21T10:59:00+0000
Updated launch vehicle variant.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-13T15:45:00+0000
NET December 30 per new NOTAMs.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-12-06T16:55:00+0000
NET December 26.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-11-09T07:49:00+0000
Targeting December 20. (1:30:57 mark)
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-14T06:37:00+0000
Added launch.
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