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After encountering a second postponement due to the satellite drift, ISRO announced this Thursday that they have put the drift on stop and have successfully managed to stabilize the spacecraft drift, “The drift has been arrested and spacecrafts put in a slow drift course to move closer to each other. By tomorrow (Jan 10), it is expected to reach initialisation conditions,”.

The docking attempt will either take place tomorrow or be postponed until a later date however the union minister of state of space Jitendra Singh held a meeting today with senior ISRO officials. Other officials that were present during the meeting were V Narayanan and S Somanath, Singh, S believed Indians will be able travel in space by 2025.

2025 - A year etched in their mind as they are to aim for more than what seems possible - Two space missions under GSLV, one commercial launch of LVM3, and the first attempt attempt at Gaganyaan space project with no human like they had aimed for.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing to launch three significant missions that will level up India’s satellite capabilities. GSLV-F15 will serve as the lead mission in deploying the NVS-02 satellite, which will strengthen the country's NavIC constellation by including Indian-designed L1 light signal features and atomic clocks. As per reports, vehicle assembly for the mission is already proceeding quickly in Sriharikota, and the launch is expected to happen in late January.

GSLV-F16 will deploy a composite Earth observation satellite, Nisar, developed in collaboration with NASA. Nisar's cameras will be able to acquire data of a single region every 12 days, and those high-resolution? imaging satellites will aid agriculture, landslides, and even earthquakes on a global scale.

BlueBird Block-2 satellites for AST SpaceMobile Inc. in the USA will be launched on March 2025 as part of the LVM3-M5 mission, which is under the NSIL commercial contract.

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