ISRO one centesimal mission LIVE: Countdown for ISRO’s satellite tv for pc launch begins at Sriharikota

The 27-hour countdown commenced on Tuesday for ISRO’s historic one centesimal mission—-launch of a Navigation satellite tv for pc onboard a GSLV rocket— from this spaceport, sources within the area company stated. Additionally, this is able to be the primary mission for ISRO Chairman V Narayanan, who assumed workplace on January 13.

The Geosynchronous Satellite tv for pc Launch Car (GSLV) with indigenous Cryogenic higher stage in its seventeenth flight, carrying the navigation satellite tv for pc NVS-02 is scheduled for lift-off at 6.23 am on January 29 from the second launch pad right here.

The navigation satellite tv for pc is the second within the sequence of the Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) aimed to supply correct place, velocity and timing to customers within the Indian sub-continent in addition to to areas about 1,500 km past the Indian land mass.

“The 27.30 hour countdown commenced at 02.53 am on Tuesday,” a number of sources advised PTI.

-PTI