Chennai, Nov. 1 -- Hours after the successful injection of Navigation Satellite NVS-03 into the orbit late on Friday night, the first orbit raising manoeuvre of the spacecraft was successfully completed.
In an update on Sunday, it said during the planned first orbit manoeuvre, the onboard Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engine was fired for 2174.8 seconds.
NVS-03, the third in the NavIC constellation, was successfully injected into the 170.3 km x 38080 km Geostationary Transfer Orbit by GSLV-F18 launch vehicle on October 30, at 2351 hrs.
NVS-03 is the third satellite in next generation navigation satellite system envisaged for providing continuity of navigation services for IRNSS series. The satellite carried indigenous atomic clock along with...