{"id":20474,"date":"2025-01-05T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/indian-rocket-blasts-off-for-countrys-first-space-docking-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:14:01","slug":"indian-rocket-blasts-off-for-countrys-first-space-docking-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/indian-rocket-blasts-off-for-countrys-first-space-docking-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian rocket blasts off for country&#8217;s first space-docking mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An Indian-made rocket has blasted off from a site north of Chennai, carrying two satellites which will test space-docking.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Docking is crucial for manned travel to the Moon or supporting a space station.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Announcing &#8220;the successful accomplishment&#8221; of the launch, Indian Space Research Organisation chief Sreedhara Somanath said the rocket had &#8220;placed the satellites in the right orbit&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The two spacecraft began testing processes on Tuesday and the final docking will take place around 7 January.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">India hopes to become only the fourth country with such technology, after Russia, the United States and China.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi has previously announced plans to send a person to the Moon by 2040.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c4gxypxedkdo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-made rocket has blasted off from a site north of Chennai, carrying two satellites which will test space-docking. Docking is crucial for manned travel to the Moon or supporting a space station. Announcing &#8220;the successful accomplishment&#8221; of the launch, Indian Space Research Organisation chief Sreedhara Somanath said the rocket had &#8220;placed the satellites in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[3242,5120,3581,4395,1720,7834],"class_list":["post-20474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-blasts","tag-countrys","tag-indian","tag-mission","tag-rocket","tag-spacedocking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20476,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474\/revisions\/20476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}