IRNSS-1G News
Congratulating the scientists at ISRO, Modi wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter.
Here are some interesting facts you must know about the country's own navigation satellite.
The IRNSS-1G, on board PSLV-C33, lifted off from first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 12.50 p.m. today.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch an Indian rocket with the country's seventh navigation satellite and the countdown has already begun on Tuesday morning
The satellite IRNSS-1G (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System-1G) is part of a constellation of seven satellites to provide accurate position information service to users across the country and the region, extending up to an area of 1,500 km.
This will be already the second rocket launch for India in 2016. The first one was on January 20 when a PSLV rocket put into orbit the IRNSS-1E satellite in text-book style.
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