Tag: IRNSS 1D

  • Indian navigation system gets expansion with PSLV launch

    India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched at 1149 GMT (7:49 a.m. EDT) Saturday. Credit: ISRO India’s indigenous space-based navigation network received its fourth satellite after a successful liftoff Saturday aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The 146-foot-tall rocket blasted off at at 1149 GMT (7:49 a.m. EST) Saturday, or 5:19 p.m. local time at the…

  • Liftoff of Indian navigation satellite postponed

    File photo of an Indian navigation satellite attached to the fourth stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle before a launch in 2014. Credit: ISRO The launch of a satellite for India’s indigenous navigation network has been postponed to resolve a problem with one of the spacecraft’s radio transmitters, officials said Wednesday. The spacecraft was…