PSLV-C24 blasts off carrying satellite for India's navigation system

An Indian rocket carrying the country's second navigation satellite - IRNSS-1B - Friday blasted faraway from the Satish Dhawan house Centre in Sriharikota in state.

Exactly at five.14 pm, the rocket - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C24 (PSLV-C24) standing around forty four.4 metres tall and deliberation around 320 tonnes - moulding into the evening sky with orange flames ferociously burning at its tail.

The house centre is around eighty kilometre north of urban center. house scientists and different invitees at Indian house analysis Organisation's (ISRO) rocket mission room intently watched the rocket's progress because it free the earth's attraction pull.

ISRO officers hope that the agency's crucial house mission can prove to be a grand success.

The rocket is anticipated to sling its solely baggage, the 1,432 weight unit IRNSS-1B (Indian Regional direction Satellite System), into the house around twenty minutes once the blast-off.

India is anticipated to own its own satellite navigation system with four satellites within the house before the tip of this year, ISRO chairman K.Radhakrishnan told IANS earlier.

According to solon, although the IRNSS could be a seven-satellite system, it can be created operational with four satellites.

The two different navigation satellites are launched throughout the last half of 2014. the primary one - IRNSS-1A - was launched in Gregorian calendar month 2013.

India began its house journey in 1975 with the launch of Aryabhatta employing a Russian rocket and until date, it's completed over one hundred house missions, together with missions to the moon and Mars.