The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched a space docking experiment — a critical mission for India’s upcoming human spaceflight campaign. The mission will demonstrate the technology to rendezvous, dock, and undock in orbit. The successful completion of the mission will be a key step towards India’s ambitions for future missions to the lunar surface and the construction of an orbiting space station. It would also make India the fourth country to develop space docking technology.
Meanwhile, exactly ten years after the first launch of a test crew module, assembly has begun on the human-rated launch vehicle that will one day launch crew to orbit as part of India’s Gaganyaan program.