ISRO prepares for landmark 100th launch today

Ahead of the Indian Space Research Organisations historic 100th rocket launch multiple scientists expressed their excitement and thoughts over the advancements the organisation has made with the Director of Space Applications Centre SACISRO Nilesh Desai talking about how this launch will update Indias Regional Navigation Satellite System from 4 to 5 satellitesISRO is planning to launch the GSLVF15 carrying the NVS02 satellite on Wednesday at 623 AM from Sriharikota Andhra PradeshGSLVF15 is the 17th flight of Indias Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV and 11th flight with Indigenous Cryo stage It is the 8th operational flight of GSLV with an indigenous Cryogenic stage and 100th Launch from Indias spaceportSpeaking to ANI about the launch Desai said We are going to launch at 623 am this GSLVF15 mission which will carry the NVS02 satellite into orbit Finally it will be put in the geostationary orbit at 36000 kilometres and it will increase the number of satellites of our navigation constellation from 4 to 5 and that will improve the overall accuracy of the positioning which we get from this navigation satelliteThis launch will update the satellite constellation of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS with a total of 7 satellites which will be up in space With the 100th launch India will have 5 out of the 7 in spaceThis is the 5th in the series of operational NavIC satellites NavIC satellite is our earlier named IRNSS satellite configuration which is called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System it is a part of this satellite constellation where we will put seven satellites Older satellites are getting replaced with a new series of satellites Desai addedMeanwhile in Bengaluru Karnataka former Scientist amp Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics RC Kapoor explained the satellite constellation which is being planned describing it as Indias own GPSThis series usually has a constellation of 7 satellites through which we can get very accurate positioning of the region in which this constellation will operate There is a ranging system and a rubidium atomic clock on this satellite which have been synchronized with clocks on the ground It is going to be Indias own GPS Kapoor told ANIAn area of about 1500 km beyond the borders of India will come under its coverage Now we have our eyes on a very ambitious project NISAR which is a collaboration of NASA and ISRO This is an Earth observation satellite This is the most expensive and biggest project of ISRO to date he addedMeanwhile other scientists such as W Selvamurthy praised the indigenously built NVS02We will place our countrys indigenously built navigation satellite NVS02 in the space It will increase the navigation capability of the NavIC system This is very important for our country because ISRO has developed many types of launch vehicles in our country in which there is propulsion technology material technology control guidance navigation payload integration payload separation and competition Selvamurthy told ANIHe further expressed his confidence in ISRO taking a leadership position in space research after becoming a developed nation in 2047 referencing the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047Navigation with Indian Constellation NavIC is Indias independent regional navigation satellite system designed to provide accurate Position Velocity and Timing PVT service to users in India as well as to region extending about 1500 km beyond Indian land massNavIC will provide two types of services namely Standard Positioning Service SPS and Restricted Service RS NavICs SPS provides a position accuracy of better than 20 m and timing accuracy better than 40 nanoseconds over the service areaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever