{"id":29990,"date":"2018-10-26T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29990"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:51:32","slug":"irnss-1i-to-enrich-navigation-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/irnss-1i-to-enrich-navigation-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"IRNSS-1I to enrich navigation fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/irnss-1i-to-enrich-navigation-fleet\/article23518583.ece\"><strong>IRNSS-1I to enrich navigation fleet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Navigation satellite IRNSS-1I was flown into space from Sriharikota space pad in the early hours of Thursday. The 1,425-kg satellite will shortly become the eighth satellite to join the NavIC constellation of Indian regional navigation satellites<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>First phase complete of NavIC constellation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Latest launch completes the first phase of the NavIC constellation, an indigenous navigation support<\/p>\n<p><strong>NavIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation), dubbed India\u2019s own GPS, has been designed to provide precise information on position, navigation and time related to objects or people<\/li>\n<li>The eight satellites have a civilian and restricted military\/security application to aid security and disaster management and fleet monitoring on land, air and sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IRNSS 1I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISRO launched the first seven navigation satellites \u2014 IRNSS-1A to 1G \u2014 between July 2013 and April 2016<\/p>\n<p>Although 1I is the ninth to be built and launched for the NavIC fleet, the previous satellite, 1H, was lost in a faulty launch last August<\/p>\n<p><strong>All rubidium atomic clocks failed<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1I and 1H were planned as backups but became necessary after all three imported rubidium atomic clocks on 1A failed in orbit<\/li>\n<li>All seven satellites are required for accurate, 24-hour information from the fleet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRNSS-1I to enrich navigation fleet \u00a0What has happened? Navigation satellite IRNSS-1I was flown into space from Sriharikota space pad in the early hours of Thursday. The 1,425-kg satellite will shortly become the eighth satellite to join the NavIC constellation of Indian regional navigation satellites \u00a0First phase complete of NavIC constellation Latest launch completes the first&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/irnss-1i-to-enrich-navigation-fleet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRNSS-1I to enrich navigation fleet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704825520},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}