India, Oct. 30 -- The Indian Space Research Organsiation (Isro) on Friday night launched its navigation satellite NVS-03 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

The satellite, which was abroad a GSLV-F18 rocket had lift off at 11:51pm IST on Friday from the second launch pad of the space centre in Sriharikota.

According to the mission brochure, the targeted orbit for the satellite has a planned perigee (closest point to Earth) of 170 km and an apogee (farthest point) of 37,023 km, at an inclination of 20.75 degrees.

NVS-03 is the third, second-generation navigation satellite designed to maintain and boost the continuity of the Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) system. With this satellite, the GSLV...