Bengaluru, June 25 -- Dr BR Guruprasad, Senior Scientific Officer at the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium here, has exuded confidence that Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his crew with the International Space Station (ISS) will have a successful docking tomorrow evening.
Speaking to mediapersons shortly after the launch today, Dr Guruprasad said, "The spacecraft carrying Shubhanshu Shukla and three others is now independently orbiting the Earth at a height of about 200 kilometers and at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour. Over the next 24 hours, it will continue this orbit before attempting the docking maneuver with the ISS."
He acknowledged that the docking process is intricate and demands high precision. "It is a technically invol...