New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched navigation satellite NVS-01 onboard the rocket GSLV-F12 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The NVS-01 is the first of the second-generation navigation satellites of the NavIC or the Navigation with Indian Constellation services.
The NavIC is India’s own indigenous satellite navigation system similar to the prominent Global Positioning System (GPS), which belongs to the United States.
This will provide accurate and real-time navigation in India and a region extending to 1,500 km around the mainland.
NavIC signals are designed to provide user position to be better than 20-metres. The timing accuracy bests 50 nanoseconds.
The NVS-01 navigation satellite — weighing 2,232 kilograms – was successfully deployed Monday into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
According to ISRO, the NVS series of satellites will sustain and augment the NavIC with enhanced features.
This series incorporates L1 band signals additionally to widen the services, it said, adding an indigenous atomic clock will be flown in NVS-01 for the first time.