{"id":407248,"date":"2026-01-12T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:39:07","slug":"india-closer-to-becoming-2nd-nation-to-re-fuel-on-orbit-satellite-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407248\/","title":{"rendered":"India closer to becoming 2nd nation to re-fuel on-orbit satellite | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/untitled-design-30.jpg\" alt=\"India closer to becoming 2nd nation to re-fuel on-orbit satellite\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> BENGALURU: When OrbitAid&#8217;s 25-kg Ayulsat lifts off aboard Isro&#8217;s PSLV-C62 Monday, the mission&#8217;s success will bring India a step closer to becoming the second country in the world to demonstrate on-orbit satellite refuelling, a capability so far claimed only by China, reports Chethan Kumar. Last year, China carried out a similar demonstration, but details remain limited and official disclosures sparse. No other spacefaring nation, including the US, has publicly demonstrated the technology in orbit. However, US firm Astroscale is developing a refuelling technology but is yet to launch. Ayulsat won&#8217;t demonstrate a full on-orbit re-fuelling. It is designed as a target satellite to validate fuel transfer in the space environment. Unlike more complex servicing missions involving two spacecraft, OrbitAid&#8217;s first step focuses on internal refuelling within a single satellite, allowing engineers to study how fluids behave in microgravity under real orbital conditions. OrbitAid founder and CEO Sakthikumar R told TOI the first refuelling is expected to take place within four hours of launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENGALURU: When OrbitAid&#8217;s 25-kg Ayulsat lifts off aboard Isro&#8217;s PSLV-C62 Monday, the mission&#8217;s success will bring India a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,215857,1348,215860,8061,1209,6464,8060,215858,215859,215856,44061,128,285,3358],"class_list":["post-407248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ayulsat","tag-breaking-news","tag-china-satellite-refuelling","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-india-space-mission","tag-isro-pslv-c62","tag-on-orbit-satellite-refuelling","tag-satellite-technology","tag-science","tag-space","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}