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.

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