The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 17th January 2025

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Gates in the sky: On ISRO and SpaDeX

Docking technology allows ISRO to think of longer space flights

On December 30, 2024, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its PSLV-C60 mission. Its primary payload was a pair of satellites for the Space Docking Experiment, or SpaDeX, to demonstrate orbital rendezvous and docking. The ability to execute it in orbit is an essential stepping stone to more complex missions. The launch was also hailed as ISRO ending the year on a high, but SpaDeX reminded us that sophisticated (complex) spaceflight missions care little for arbitrary (random) deadlines. The satellites successfully docked on January 16 after a few abortive (failed) attempts. They were expected to dock on January 7, which ISRO postponed to January 9, then brought them close without docking on January 12 in an apparent (seeming) data-taking effort. It nixed (cancelled) the January 9 attempt after the satellites were found to have drifted (moved) more than expected, prompting measures to arrest (stop) the displacement and reinitialise (reset) the experiment. Once docked, ISRO began tests to verify if the satellites could exchange electric power, then undock (separate) and separate, followed by testing their own payloads that would be spread over two years. The C60 mission also launched the fourth stage of the rocket as an orbital platform. It carried 24 payloads from various ISRO centres and private enterprises testing various technologies. The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre’s Compact Research module for Orbital Plant Studies was able to have cowpea seeds germinate (grow) in orbit, capturing the popular imagination.

Docking allows spacefaring (space-traveling) components to be launched separately and assembled in space to form a larger module. This allows a space agency to plan interplanetary (between planets) missions whose spacecraft are heavier than what the heaviest rockets can launch. Docking is thus a symbolic (representative) gateway to new opportunities, with the Chandrayaan-4 lunar sample return mission being a good example. In anticipation, ISRO loaded the SpaDeX satellites with enough fuel for multiple tries and also continuously collected data. Its own nervousness (anxiety) became evident, too: after the first two attempts, it backed down (withdrew) from its promise to live-stream the successful one. Docking technology has become desirable thanks to the perceived (believed) inevitability of long-duration spaceflight. The pressure to lower costs imposed by, say, crewed (manned) missions to Mars or space-mining operations has rendered ideas such as in-space satellite servicing and orbital resupply platforms, both of which require docking, more lucrative (profitable). ISRO plans to start launching the ‘Bharatiya Antariksh Station’ (BAS) later this decade. As it embarks (starts) on a new phase of operations, with V. Narayanan as its new chairman, ISRO should also describe a coherent (clear) vision for the ex ante (preliminary) utility expected of BAS. Without this context, the larger pieces of the Indian space programme and their purpose relative to other countries’ plans seem adrift (uncertain).

Hindu Vocab Wordlist 17th January 2025

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1. Sophisticated: Having a lot of experience and knowledge about the world and about culture, art, literature, etc.
2. Arbitrary: Based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason or evidence.
3. Abortive: Not successful, or not achieving the intended result.
4. Apparent: Easy to see or understand.
5. Nixed: To reject or cancel something.
6. Drifted: To move slowly, especially as a result of outside forces, with no control over the direction.
7. Arrest:  To stop something or prevent something from continuing.
8. Reinitialise: To start something again, especially a process or system that has been stopped or interrupted.
9. Undock: To disconnect a spacecraft or vessel from another object or from a dock.
10. Germinate: (verb) To start to grow, or to cause a seed to start to grow.

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