{"id":35831,"date":"2018-11-01T11:54:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35831"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:24:28","slug":"isro-set-to-launch-satellite-with-corrected-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-set-to-launch-satellite-with-corrected-clocks\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO set to launch satellite with corrected clocks:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/isro-set-to-launch-satellite-with-corrected-clocks\/article19431016.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISRO set to launch satellite with corrected clocks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Space Research Organisation will soon launch a replacement navigation satellite fitted with corrected atomic clocks to make up for the satellite, IRNSS-1A, which failed in mid 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Explanation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The upcoming IRNSS-1H will be sent up towards the end of August.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its launch became urgent after all three rubidium atomic clocks on IRNSS-1A failed in mid-2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Three more clocks failed later across the fleet of seven satellites, which together had 21 atomic clocks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The malfunction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The malfunctions struck the orbiting satellites even as ISRO completed putting the seventh and last regional navigation spacecraft, 1G, in orbit in April, 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notably, 1A can still send low-powered messages and weather data that are useful to fishermen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first regional navigation spacecraft was put in orbit in July 2013.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Navigation Indian Constellation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rs. 1,420-crore fleet, now called NAViC or Navigation Indian Constellation, is India\u2019s own GPS-like system to give accurate information about location and time of persons or objects, \u00a0in the same way as the older U.S. Global Positioning System or Russia&#8217;s GLONASS.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO set to launch satellite with corrected clocks: Context: Indian Space Research Organisation will soon launch a replacement navigation satellite fitted with corrected atomic clocks to make up for the satellite, IRNSS-1A, which failed in mid 2016. Explanation: The upcoming IRNSS-1H will be sent up towards the end of August. Its launch became urgent after&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-set-to-launch-satellite-with-corrected-clocks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO set to launch satellite with corrected clocks:<\/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-35831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704776114},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831","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=35831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}