A streak of 36 successful launches over a period of 18 years ended on Thursday when India’s PSLV rocket suffered an in-flight failure that left its payload – a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System – in a lower- than-planned orbit and possibly trapped underneath the rocket’s payload fairing.
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The Indian Space Research Organization is counting down to the launch of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on Thursday with a revamped IRNSS navigation satellite set to provide critical replacement capacity to begin dealing with a systemic clock issue that is affecting India’s first IRNSS generation.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle takes shape for an August 2017 liftoff with the country’s eighth navigation satellite, sent into orbit to provide replacement capacity for IRNSS-1A that launched in 2013 and suffered problems with its atomic clocks.
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India’s eighth IRNSS navigation satellite prepares for launch aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to provide replacement capacity for the very first IRNSS satellite launched in 2013 that suffered failures of its onboard atomic clocks
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