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Building and operating the rover for the ISRO-JAXA LUPEX mission will contribute directly to the development of Japan's pressurized rover for Artemis.
NSIL's annual report does not specify the name of the lunar mission for which ISRO provided commercial ground tracking support in 2023.
NSIL's annual report notes that ISRO provided commercial ground tracking support for a lunar mission by another country in 2023.
NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) is an Indian government arm tasked with commercializing ISRO’s space technologies.
ISRO will provide commercial ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ second CLPS Moon landing mission, IM-2.
Multiple ISRO sources and a public talk by a program lead at ISRO’s spacecraft communications arm ISTRAC indicate that Intuitive Machines commercially used ISRO’s ground tracking support for IM-1.
ISRO has publicly known cooperation arrangements with JAXA and Roscosmos.
Multiple ISRO sources and a program lead at ISTRAC indicate that Intuitive Machines commercially used ISRO's ground tracking support for IM-1.
ISRO has publicly known cooperation arrangements with JAXA and Roscosmos but not with ispace Japan.
On December 30, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its PSLV-C60 mission.
ISRO is using SPADEX docking experiments to reduce risk for its upcoming Gaganyaan human spaceflight missions, including an end-of-decade cargo flight to the International Space Station and a cargo flight to India’s first space station module.
ISRO is using the $14 million SPADEX mission, excluding launch cost, as practice before launching the more complex Chandrayaan 4 lunar sample-return mission.
The expected lifetime of the satellites is around two years, during which ISRO plans to perform undocking and potentially additional docking attempts.
On January 16, 2026 ISRO docked and controlled two twin satellites in circular low Earth orbit as part of the SPADEX (space docking experiment) mission.
ISRO rescheduled the docking process from January 7 to January 9 due to the need for further validation after a ground simulation identified an abort scenario.
ISRO succeeded in controlling the joined satellites as a single unit after successful docking.
ISRO began the concept of docking development in the 1980s and accelerated it around 2016 in anticipation of future projects.
ISRO successfully achieved the docking of the two satellites on January 16, making India the fourth country to possess this capability.
ISRO developed various technologies for space docking, including inter-satellite communication links and a GNSS-based Novel Relative Orbit Determination and Propagation (RODP) processor.
ISRO employed an androgynous docking mechanism for the SpaDeX mission, which is similar to the International Docking System Standard (IDSS) but utilized only two motors instead of 24.