IRNSS-1H

16 Sep

India to resume satellite launches by December

Bengaluru: India will resume launching satellites in November or December, unfazed by the failure of its rocket in deploying a spare navigation satellite in the Earth's lower orbit on August 31, said a top official on Friday. "We will resume the launches by November or December, with one of the remote sensing satellites though we are yet to finalise with which," said A.S. Kiran Kumar, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The state-run space agency will schedule its next launch mission after a committee studying the cause of the failure submits its report soon. "We have identified what the problem is…

30 Aug

Countdown begins for Indian navigation satellite launch

Chennai: The 29-hour countdown for the launch of India's eighth navigation satellite IRNSS-1H began at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Sriharikota rocket port, around 80 km from here, officials said. The 1,425-kg satellite -- part of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) -- will be carried by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket XL variant that will blast off on Thursday evening at around 7 p.m., said an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation. This will be the eighth IRNSS satellite and will be a replacement for IRNSS-1A as its rubidium atomic clocks have failed. The atomic clocks are…