Isro’s GSLV-F15 launches second navigation satellite NVS-02
29 Jan 2025
Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) today successfully launched the NVS-02 navigation satellite from India’s spaceport at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The GSLV-F15 rocket carrying the NVS-02 satellite lifted off from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SAHR at 6:23 am, successfully placing the satellite on a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
This is the 100th launch from the spaceport and the 17th flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). It is also the 8th flight of the GSLV with indigenous cryo stage.
This is also the first satellite launch mission under Isro’s new chairman, V Narayanan.
The GSLV-F-15’s payload fairing is a metallic version, having a diameter of 3.4 metres, while the rocket itself is 50.9 metres tall with a lift-off mass of 420.7 tonnes.
NVS-02 is part of India’s independent navigational system NavIC, which is a constellation of navigation satellites designed to provide accurate Position, Velocity and Timing (PVT) service to users in India as well as to region extending about 1,500 km beyond India’s land borders.
The second satellite in the NavIC system, NVS-02 is configured with navigation payload in L1, L5 and S bands in addition to ranging payload in C-band like its predecessor-NVS-01.
The launch of the NVS-02 is aimed at enhancing Indian navigational requirements in the private and defence sectors ans is the second in India's next-generation navigation satellite series.
The NavIC system offers precise Position, Velocity, and Timing (PVT) services to users within India and up to 1,500km beyond its frontiers.
