Isro's SpaDeX: India successfully conducts historic space-docking test
India is only the fourth country in the world with such technology after United States, Russia and China.
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The technology is essential for the country's future ambition to build an Indian space station and put a person on the Moon.
The mission called SpaDeX blasted off from Sriharikota launch pad in southern India on 30 December. The two spacecraft, launched on a single rocket, separated in space. The docking process, initially scheduled for 7 January, was rescheduled a number of times.
On Thursday morning, the space agency announced that it had created history by becoming only the fourth country in the world with such technology after United States, Russia and China.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at the Isro office in Bangalore as scientists carried out the test.
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