ISRO aims to augment continuity of the Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) services with the launch of the satellite (Pic/ISRO)
The 51.7 metre tall rocket lifted off majestically from the second launch pad at Sriharikota, located about 130 km from Chennai. Amid clear skies, it took off at a prefixed time of 10.42 am (Pic/ISRO)
The second-generation navigation satellite series is considered as a significant launch that would ensure the continuity of NavIC services -- an Indian regional satellite navigation system, similar to GPS, providing accurate and real-time navigation in the country and a region extending to 1,500 km around the mainland (Pic/ISRO)
The signals from NavIC are designed to provide user position accurate to better than 20 metres and timing accuracy better than 50 nanoseconds, ISRO said (Pic/PTI)
Nearly 20 minutes after lift-off, the rocket is scheduled to place the 2,232 kg satellite in a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) at an altitude of about 251 km (Pic/PTI)
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