Each satellite tv for pc had three atomic clocks.
ISRO mentioned that NVS-01 is the primary of the second-generation satellites envisaged for the navigation companies.
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, mentioned 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 will likely be flown in NVS-01.
Simply put, the NavIC an acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation (previously with an extended winding identify Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS) is just 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 it is going to be additional taken up by firing the onboard motors.
ISRO mentioned 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 in the course of the eclipse.
NVS sequence of satellites will maintain and increase the NavIC with enhanced options.
This sequence has payloads that function on L1, L5 and S bands thereby widening its companies.
The L1 navigation band is widespread for offering Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) companies for civilian customers and for interoperability with different Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) alerts.
Be that as it might, 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 mentioned the NavIC satellites had been performing nicely until the three clocks in IRNSS-1A — the primary satellite tv for pc — failed.
Sources in ISRO had earlier informed IANS a few of the atomic clocks weren’t functioning correctly. The clocks are used for exact time and site.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – IANS)
