¤ Current affairs- 02 July ¤ 1) India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), was successfully put in orbit on 1 July 2013. The 1,425-kg navigation satellite was sent through which launch vehicle of ISRO? – PSLV-C22 (The IRNSS-1A is the first of the proposed seven navigational satellites to be launched by ISRO and the acronym IRNSS stands for Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. It was launched from the launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh). Apart from India, its benefits would extend to a range of 1,500 km in the region. With a mission life of 10 years, it will deliver applications ranging across terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation, disaster management, tracking of vehicles, guiding hikers and travellers, and visual-voice navigation for drivers. This satellite will offer motion and location information over the sub-continent just as the popular U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, has done across the world for several years)
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:30:22 +0000
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