India on Thursday became the fourth country to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space, a feat seen as pivotal for future missions as New Delhi cements its place as a global space power.

India docked two satellites in space Thursday, a key milestone for the country's dreams of a space station and a manned moon mission, the space agency said.

India became the world's fourth nation on Thursday to achieve the feat of space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its share of a rapidly growing $400-billion global space market.

BENGALURU: Isro, which began working on the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) project on mission mode in 2017, much before the announcement of Gaganyaan, chose the mission's parameters carefully to complement future human spaceflight missions while avoiding populated areas during potential abort scenarios.