No glitch in SpaDeX, says ISRO chairman

ISRO Chairman V Narayanan Saturday said there were no glitches in the agency’s maiden space docking mission, SpaDeX, as reported in a section of media and that it was going step by step.

“No glitches, right now it is docked. We are going step by step. We are studying and then we are planning to do a lot of experiments,” Narayanan, Secretary, Department of Space, said on the sidelines of the 15th Biennial Edition of Aero India International Seminar. The seminar is to be held in Bengaluru from February 10 to 14.

On January 16, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully performed the docking of satellites as part of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) and the agency also announced that post docking, control of two satellites as a single object was successful. In this mission, NVS-02 navigation satellite was successfully injected into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).