ISRO Chairman V Narayanan Saturday said determination were nary glitches successful the agency’s maiden abstraction docking mission, SpaDeX, arsenic reported successful a conception of media and that it was going measurement by step.
“No glitches, close present it is docked. We are going measurement by step. We are studying and past we are readying to bash a batch of experiments,” Narayanan, Secretary, Department of Space, said connected the sidelines of the 15th Biennial Edition of Aero India International Seminar. The seminar is to beryllium held successful Bengaluru from February 10 to 14.
On January 16, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully performed the docking of satellites arsenic portion of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) and the bureau besides announced that station docking, power of 2 satellites arsenic a azygous entity was successful. In this mission, NVS-02 navigation outer was successfully injected into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
However, connected February 2, the ISRO issued an update that the orbit raising operations towards positioning the outer to the designated orbital slot could not beryllium carried retired arsenic the valves for admitting the oxidizer to occurrence the thrusters did not open.