BENGALURU: The two Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) satellites that Isro was hoping to unite early Thursday have drifted too far apart late Wednesday, causing a second postponement of the final procedure in three days.
“While making a maneuver to reach 225m between satellites the drift was found to be more than expected, post non-visibility period. The planned docking for tomorrow (January 9) is postponed. Satellites are safe,” Isro said around 9pm Wednesday.
The space agency had initiated the drift on the chaser spacecraft — the two satellites are designated chaser and target — at about 8:05pm.
After the launch on December 30, Isro has been preparing for the docking, which…