The Indian Space Research Organisation launches its 100th mission early Wednesday. They launched vehicle GSLV-F15 and lifted off with the NVS-02 navigation satellite. This vehicle is particularly designated orbit at 6:23 am on Wednesday. This launch took place from the second launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Andhra Pradesh. The target of launching these satellites is to improve the positioning accuracy along with the five seven satellites in space.
ISRO chief Dr V Narayanan said about lunch,
“I am extremely happy…that the first launch of this year, 2025, has been successfully accomplished — with GSLV-F15 launch vehicle precisely injecting the navigation satellite NVS-02 in the intended orbits.”
Narayanan stated this was the 100 different launches from our launch pads, “which is a significant milestone of India.” He congratulated the entire team behind the launch.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh congratulates the entire ISRO team for achieving the landmark milestone of the 100th launches from Sriharikota.
“It’s a privilege to be associated with the Department of Space at the historic moment of this record feat,” he said.
Jitendra Singh share a post in X where he said
“Team ISRO, you have once again made India proud with successful launch of GSLV-F15 / NVS-02 Mission. From a humble beginning by Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan and few others, it has been an amazing journey. And a quantum leap after PM Sh Narendra Modi ‘unlocked’ the Space sector and instilled the confidence that “sky is Not the limit”,”
GSLV-F15, is expected to be placed in the NVS-02 satellite through a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
NVS-02 is the second satellite in the NVS series. This is configured with Navigation payload in L1, L5, and S bands and ranging payload in C-band like its predecessor-NVS-01.
NVS-02 uses a combination of indigenous and procured Atomic clocks for precise time estimation.
According to ISRO, navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC)
“India’s independent regional navigation satellite system designed to provide accurate Position, Velocity and Timing (PVT) service to users in India as well as to region extending about 1500 km beyond Indian land mass.”
Indian Space Agency explained the facts and said
“NavIC will provide two types of services, namely, Standard Positioning Service (SPS) and Restricted Service (RS). NavIC’s SPS provides a position accuracy of better than 20 m (2σ) and timing accuracy better than 40 ns (2σ) over the service area,”
NVS-01, is the first of the second-generation satellites that was launched onboard GSLV-F12 on May 29, 2023.
