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IRNSS-1A is the first navigational satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) series of satellites been placed in geosynchronous orbit.

Key facts

Spaceflight.auto
all
Spaceflight.name
IRNSS-1A
Spaceflight.mission_type
Navigation
Spaceflight.operator
ISRO
Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
2013-034A
Spaceflight.SATCAT
39199
Spaceflight.mission_duration
Planned: 10 yearsElapsed:
Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
I-1K
Spaceflight.manufacturer
ISRO Satellite CentreSpace Applications Centre
Spaceflight.power
1,660 watts
Spaceflight.launch_rocket
PSLV-XL C22
Spaceflight.launch_site
Satish Dhawan FLP
Spaceflight.launch_contractor
ISRO
Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
22 January 2015, 16:27:41 UTC
Spaceflight.orbit_reference
Geocentric
Spaceflight.orbit_regime
Geosynchronous
Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
29.3°
Spaceflight.orbit_period
1436.1 minutes

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Satellite
  • Launch
  • Partial Failure
  • See also
  • References
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IRNSS-1A is the first navigational satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) series of satellites been placed in geosynchronous orbit.

==Satellite== The satellite has been developed at a cost of , and was launched on 1 July 2013. It will provide IRNSS services to the Indian public, which would be a system similar to Global Positioning System (GPS) but only for India and the region around it.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “IRNSS-1A” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.