ISRO Plans To Launch Navigation Satellite By March-End

CHENNAI: The Indian space agency plans to launch its fourth regional navigation satellite by March-end after replacing a faulty transmitter, a senior official said.

“We are planning to launch the satellite by the end of this month. The replacement transmitter is getting ready and will be brought from our centre in Bangalore,” M.Y.S. Prasad, director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, said on the phone from Sriharikota, around 80 km from Chennai.

He said the faulty transmitter in the satellite will be replaced at SDSC.

The 1,425 kg satellite - Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1D) - was supposed to be launched on March 9 in the evening by an Indian rocket called Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

The Indian Space Research Organisation on March 4, however, deferred the launch after it found one of the telemetry transmitters in the IRNSS-1D not working properly.

It is the first time in ISRO’s history that a satellite has to be dismounted from a rocket due to a problem in it.
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