Countdown For Launch Of ‘Indian GPS’ Satellite Begins: All Details

The countdown for the Monday morning flight of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket carrying India’s first second era navigation satellite tv for pc NVS-01 started at 7.12 a.m. on Sunday, stated an official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Interestingly, for the primary time, an indigenous rubidium atomic clock developed by ISRO’s Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad can be flown in NVS-01.

Simply put, the NavIC an acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation (previously with an extended winding title Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS) is much like the GPS (Global Positioning System) of the US, Glonass of Russia and Galileo of Europe in addition to China’s Beidou.

A totally developed NavIC system consists of seven satellites in Geosynchronous/Inclined Geosynchronous orbits. It will present actual time positioning and timing companies over India and a area extending roughly 1,500km across the Indian mainland.

According to the ISRO, the three staged 51.7-metre tall rocket GSLV-F12 with a elevate off mass of 420 ton carrying 2,232 kg NVS-01 navigation satellite tv for pc is scheduled to elevate off at 10.42 a.m. on Monday from the second launch pad in Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh.

About 19 minutes into the flight, the rocket will ship the satellite tv for pc right into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) from the place will probably be additional taken up by firing the onboard motors.

ISRO stated that NVS-01 is the primary of the second-generation satellites envisaged for the navigation companies.

The satellite tv for pc with a mission lifetime of 12 years is powered by two photo voltaic arrays able to producing energy upto 2.4kW and a lithium-ion battery throughout the eclipse.

NVS collection of satellites will maintain and increase the NavIC with enhanced options.

This collection has payloads that function on L1, L5 and S bands thereby widening its companies.

The L1 navigation band is well-liked for offering Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) companies for civilian customers and for interoperability with different Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) indicators.

Be that as it could, ISRO had used imported atomic clocks on all of the 9 navigation satellites it had launched earlier.

Each satellite tv for pc had three atomic clocks.

It was stated the NavIC satellites have been performing effectively until the three clocks in IRNSS-1A — the primary satellite tv for pc — failed.

Sources in ISRO had earlier informed IANS a number of the atomic clocks weren’t functioning correctly. The clocks are used for exact time and placement.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – IANS)