India's ISRO delays highly anticipated space docking experiment again

"While making a maneuver to reach 225 m between satellites the drift was found to be more than expected, post non-visibility period", ISRO said on social media platform X. The mission, called Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), would make India the fourth country in the world to achieve a feat essential for expanding future deep space exploratory missions. Launched on Dec. 30 from India's main spaceport, the mission used an Indian-made rocket to deploy satellites into orbit.