ISRO conducted the highly anticipated docking of two spacecraft—Chaser and Target—making India only the fourth nation in the world to achieve this technological feat, after the United States, Russia,

The two satellites of the Indian Space Research Organization 's (ISRO) Space Docking Experiment, or SpaDex, successfully met up in Earth orbit yesterday (Jan. 15), making India just the fourth country to pull off an in-space docking. The other three are all heavy hitters in the space game: the United States, Russia and China.