Two SPADEX Satellites re-enters Earth's Atmosphere : ISRO

Chennai, Oct 24 (UNI) In a major accomplished, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday announced that the Two Space Docking Experiment (SPADEX) Satellites launched in December 2024, have successfully demonstrated critical autonomous rendezvous and low-impact docking technologies and rentered the Earth's atmosphere. Right through the mission, both the spacecraft successfully accomplished all the core objectives including vertical and radial docking, composite control, power transfer, undocking, and payload operations. Further circumnavigation was also demonstrated successfully, it said. In an update, the Space Agency said after the fuel was exhausted in both the satellites--SPADEX-A and SPADEX-B. Their orbits decayed progressively,…