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The ISRO has begun 27 hours of counting for the historic 100th mission. In this mission, a navigation satellite will be launched on GSLV rocket. This will also be the first mission of ISRO’s new chairman V Narayanan, who took charge on 13 January.
Today, on 29 January 2025, GSLV-F15 is going to launch NVS-02 mission from rocket at 06:23 pm. GSLV-F15 is the 17th flight. The NVS-02 is a satellite, which is part of the sailor satellite system. The launch site Satish Dhawan is the second launch pad of the space center.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said that on January 29, the 100th GSLV-F15 mission will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota today. The GSLV-F15 rocket with indigenous cryogenic phase will send the NVS-02 satellite to the geosyinkronous transfer orbit. In this regard, ISRO gave information on its social media X handle. The post states that mark your calendar, the time for the launch of GSLV-F15/NVS-02 mission is 29 January.
The satellite launch vehicle (SLV) was the first major rocket to fly from Sriharikota on August 10, 1979. Now after 46 years, the Space Department is ready to complete a century. GSLV-F15 is the 17th flight of GSLV rockets. It is also the 11th flight with indigenous cryogenic phase. The NVS-02 satellite is part of the Indian navigation system. It is the second generation satellite, which will work for navigation.
The navigation satellite system is designed to provide exact position, velocity and time service to users in India and about 1500 km from Indian land. The new NVS-02 satellite L1 supports the frequency band. This will improve its services and reliability.
ISRO said that NVS-02 satellite is the second generation of NAVLC satellites. It has a standard I-2 simply platform. It weighs 2,250 kg and can handle about 3 kW power. It will have navigation payload, and C-band payload in L1, L5 and S band.
NAVIC will provide two types of services: standard positioning service and banned service. NAVIC’s SPS service will provide better position accuracy than 20 meters and better time accuracy than 40 nanoseconds.
Coverage of 1500 km
Its purpose is to provide accurate status, velocity and time to users in an area of about 1,500 km from the Indian subcontinent as well as the Indian land. The count of 27.30 hours started on Tuesday at 2.53 am.
Second generation satellite
50.9 meter high GSLV-F15 is happening after GSLV-F12 mission. The first navigation satellite NVS-01 was launched on May 29, 2023. The sailor includes five second-generation satellites-NVS-01/02/03/04/05, which are designed to increase sailor base layer consistency with advanced features to ensure continuity of services.
2250 kg satellite
The NVS-02 satellite designed by the UR Satellite Center weighs around 2,250 kg. It has a ranging payload in the C band in addition to the navigation payload in L1, L5 and S band, which is like its predecessor NVS-01.
This will benefit
According to ISRO, the use of this satellite mainly land, air and sea navigation, accurate agriculture, fleet management, location-based services in mobile devices, class fixation for satellites, internet of things (IOT) based application, emergency and time Will be done for services.
