ISRO launches next-gen navigation satellites to get real-time position and timing services.

NVS-01 is the first of the second generation satellites slated for navigation with the Indian Constellation (NavIC) service.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday launched the next-generation navigation satellite with a GSLV rocket from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, aiming to provide real-time positioning and timing services.

The satellite will provide a real-time position and timing service over an area of about 1,500 km across India and Madhya Pradesh.

According to ISRO, NVS-01 is the first of the second generation satellites slated for navigation with the Indian Constellation (NavIC) service. The NVS series of satellites will maintain and enhance NavIC with advanced features

This series additionally includes L1 band signaling to extend services For the first time, an indigenous atomic clock will be flown on NVS-01

On its 15th flight, the 51.7 m high Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle carried the 2,232 kg navigation satellite NVS-01.

After about 19 minutes of flight, the NVS-O1 satellite was injected into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Subsequent orbit raising maneuvers will take NVS-01 into its intended geosynchronous orbit, ISRO added.

The rocket is scheduled to deploy the satellite into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) at an altitude of about 251 km after a flight of about 20 minutes, ISRO said.

The NVS-01 navigation payload carries the L1, L5 and S bands and unlike the earlier ones, the second generation series of satellites will also carry an indigenously developed rubidium atomic clock.

The Navik series includes features such as land, air and sea navigation, precision agriculture, location-based services on mobile devices and marine fisheries, among others.

This mission is the sixth operational flight of GSLV with indigenous cryogenic stage The mission life of NVS-01 is expected to be better than 12 years, ISRO said.