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| India's Navigational Satellite |
Today a senior official of the Department of Space (DoS) said that India
is planning to launch first unit of its navigational satellite in June 2013.
The very first satellite unit of Indian Regional Navigation
Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation, which is named as IRNSS-1 will be
launched by PSLV-C22.
The above information was
provided by the K Radhakrishnan sir himself, who is the honorable Chairman of
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Secretary of the Department
of Space (DoS).
Some ISRO officials
revealed the key features of IRNSS. According to them IRNSS is basically a
regional navigation satellite system, and it has all the potentialities to work
independently. The Indian Government has already sanctioned Rs 2k Crore Fund forScientific Research in Budget 2013.
It has been designed to
navigate different positions of the country with optimum accuracy. It will
provide position accuracy of more than 10 metres over India, and the good part
is that’s not all, as it can be able to keep an eye on the region extending
about 1500 km around the whole nation. On that note you should know that India’s first Space Weather Reading Centre to
be set up in Kolkata.
A senior ISRO official
said, "It is designed to provide an accurate real time Position,
Navigation and Time (PNT) services to users on a variety of platforms with 24x7
service availability under all weather conditions."
The official added that the
IRNSS will mainly offer two types of key ground level services. The first one
will be to provide standard positioning service for the common people of India,
and the second one is to provide restricted service for special users that will
be authorized by the government itself.
Today Radhakrishnan sir was
present in an event to address a especial symposium on 'Indian Remote Sensing
Satellite (IRS) Series: A Saga of 25 years'. While addressing he informed the
reporters that ISRO is all set to launch the first unit of its navigational
satellite in coming June only.
As I already mentioned that
the satellite, which is likely to fly to the sky in June, will be the first
unit of IRNSS. It has to be mentioned here that ISRO has already planned to
have a constellation of total seven different satellites under the IRNSS
project. Once the IRNSS-1 will be launched, it would be properly examined in
orbit for a testing period of three to four months maximum.
Today is the 25th
anniversary of the launch of India's first operational Remote Sensing Satellite
IRS-1A. An event has been organized to mark this special day of Indian space
research history. Mr. Radhakrishnan was very much excited at the event, and
answered loads of questions with mere patience.
He said India is all set to
launch a series of vehicles and satellites in the next one year. According to
him around 12 missions has been already planned by ISRO to complete within 2014
only. ISRO has planned to complete the Mars orbiter mission, which would cost
around Rs 450 crore, in October-November.
The Mars Orbiter mission is
mainly focusing on the India’s technical supremacy to reach Martian orbit, and
it will also make the all important way for future scientific exploratory
missions, and GSLV-Mk III experimental venture. It will also demonstrate
India’s advance space research capabilities globally.
The GSLV-Mk III is designed
to provide ISRO self-reliability to launch heavier communication satellites of
INSAT-4 class. These satellites are quite heavier than other existing ones, it
weigh 4500 kg to 5000 kg.
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