ISRO Studying Easy Path To Navigation Satellite's Problem Transmitter

CHENNAI: The Indian space agency is deliberating the ways and means of setting right the glitch in its fourth regional navigation satellite with minimum effort so that it could be launched early, said an official.

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

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

"We are assessing how the correction work could be carried out with minimum efforts so that the satellite could be launched early," an ISRO official told IANS.

Indian satellite experts are studying the easy path to reach the problem transmitter and set it right.

According to the official, only then will it be possible to estimate the time needed to repair the telemetry transmitter and fix the rocket launch date.

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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