India on Thursday became the fourth country to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space, a feat seen as pivotal for future missions as New Delhi cements its place as a global space power.

The Indian Space Research Organization's twin SpaDeX satellites will try to dock in orbit on tonight at around 9:30 p.m. EST (0230 Jan. 9 GMT/0800 IST).

The two satellites of the Indian Space Research Organization 's (ISRO) Space Docking Experiment, or SpaDex, successfully met ...

India has achieved a significant milestone by joining the elite group of nations capable of performing space docking. The ...

The Indian Space Research Organization successfully conducted an uncrewed docking in space, making India the fourth country ...

Since then, Russia and China have also achieved docking many times. India, therefore, is the fourth country.

India became the fourth country to achieve the feat—dubbed as SpaDeX, or Space Docking Experiment—after Russia, the United States and China. The aim of the mission was to "develop and ...

India on Thursday became the fourth country to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space, a feat seen as pivotal for future missions as New Delhi cements its place as a global space power.

The Indian space agency’s mission, called the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDex), involved deploying two small spacecraft, weighing about 220 kilograms each, into low-earth orbit.