NVS-01

Chennai, May 28 (IANS) The countdown for the Monday morning flight of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket carrying India's first second generation navigation satellite NVS-01 began at 7.12 a.m. on Sunday, said an official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Interestingly, for the first time, an indigenous rubidium atomic clock developed by ISRO's Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad will be flown in NVS-01. Simply put, the NavIC an acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation (formerly with a long winding name Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS) is similar to the GPS (Global Positioning System) of the US, Glonass of Russia…