India successfully launched twin satellites on the country's first-ever space docking test flight on Monday (Dec. 30), a mission that aims to demonstrate a key technology the country will need to build its own space station and return moon samples to Earth.
The India Space Research Organisation will launch the two small satellites of its Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) atop an Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on Monday. Liftoff occurred on time at 11:30 a.m. EST (10 p.m. IST, 1628 GMT) from ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
