Isro Launched 7th Navigation Satellite Irnss 1g On

It covers india and a region extending 1 500 km.

Isro launched 7th navigation satellite irnss 1g on.

The indian regional navigation satellite system irnss with an operational name of navic acronym for navigation with indian constellation. The indian space research organisation isro will raise the satellite to its home slot over the next couple of days. Department of space indian space research organisation public notice attention. The 1425 kg indian regional navigation satellite system irnss 1g was put into the elliptical orbit by indian space research organisation s in its thirty fifth flight pslv c33.

The satellite with a life span of 12 years has two payloads for navigation and ranging. The navigation payload of irnss 1g will transmit signals to the users on the l5 band and s band. Also nāvik sailor or navigator in sanskrit and many other indian languages is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system that provides accurate real time positioning and timing services. Irnss 1g is the seventh navigation satellite of the seven satellites constituting the irnss space segment.

Isro had launched and operationalised other six satellites irnss 1f on march 10 2016 irnss 1e january 20 2016 irnss 1d march 28 2015 irnss 1c october 16 2014 irnss 1b april 4. The satellite was launched into a sub geosynchronous transfer orbit sub gto on board of polar satellite launch vehicle pslv c 33 from satish dhawan space centre. Click here to view results. Its predecessors irnss 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e and 1f were launched by pslv c22 pslv c24 pslv c26 pslv c27 pslv c31 and pslv c32 in july 2013 april 2014 october 2014 march 2015 january 2016 and march 2016 respectively.

This is the thirty fourth consecutively successful mission of pslv and the thirteenth in its xl configuration. In its 35th flight pslv c33 isro 39 s polar satellite launch vehicle pslv successfully launched the 1 425 kg irnss 1g the seventh satellite in the indian regional navigation satellite system i. The indian space research organization isro has successfully launched india s 7th navigation satellite irnss 1g of the indian regional navigation satellite system irnss. Like all other irnss satellites irnss 1g also has a lift off mass.

Indian space research organization isro on 28 april 2016 launched india s seventh navigation satellite of the indian regional navigation satellite system irnss 1g into a sub geosynchronous.