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Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful

Posted by Unknown on from the satellites-for-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "India's first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organization, was successfully put in orbit on Monday night. The launch vehicle, PSLV-C22, bearing the 1,425-kg navigation satellite, blasted off the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center here at the scheduled lift-off time of 11.41 p.m." The satellite is the first of seven that will eventually provide a regional equivalent of GPS under complete Indian control.

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  1. Re:Out of curiosity... by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Funny

    we'll have to call their tech support and get a reading from a script to find out

  2. Re:Congrats by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yesterday, I read about a failed launch from Russia.
    Today, I read about a successful launch from India.

    I'm sure there's a "in Soviet Russia" mixed in with an "India tech support" joke in there somewhere.

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  3. Re:Out of curiosity... by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 5, Funny

    we'll have to call their tech support and get a reading from a script to find out

    But when you call, you get someone in Texas.

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  4. Re:Out of curiosity... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    We do have some deep-cover operatives working in Texas(as with other authoritarian petro-theocracies, it pays to keep an eye on them); but if somebody tells you that they are "an American from Texas", they are probably telling one of the inside jokes that they use on foreigners. Texas has texans which are a totally different thing.

  5. This week so far: by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    India 1, Russia 0.

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  6. So far, it sucks. by localman57 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am one of the early beta testers for this project. The satellite went live a few hours ago. And as far as I can tell, it's far, far inferior to the US GPS system. With GPS, I get very accurate longitude and latitude, and coarse altitude location information. All the INRSS system keeps telling me is :

    You are somewhere on the surface of a sphere 20121.2km from satellite #1

    Although they've promised a firmware upgrade that will show you as being somewhere on the circle that represents the intersection of that sphere and the Earth's surface.