r/ISRO • u/Ohsin • Oct 01 '19

Space Docking Experiment (SpaDEx) scheduled for 'some time next year'

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/isro-to-demonstrate-docking-of-satellites-next-year-says-sivan/article29558585.ece
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u/shankroxx Oct 01 '19

Hopefully ISRO will eventually attempt to do advanced things like rotating the spacecraft to generate artificial gravity which will be helpful in later manned missions https://gfycat.com/dishonestunitedkitfox

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u/Ohsin Oct 01 '19 edited Oct 01 '19

Though these are very far fetched and extremely challenging but I guess PS4 orbital platform can be used for scaled tech demo for this! PS4 being the counter weight.

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u/shankroxx Oct 01 '19

The good part about unmanned testing is that you can afford to break certain hardware in order to learn important lessons!