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ISRO's record 20-satellite launch, including Cartosat-2 series !!

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PM Narendra Modi in a series of tweets gave his "hearty congratulations" to the ISRO scientists for the "Barrier Breaking Records". Image Credit: DD India The  Indian Space  Research Organisation (ISRO) has created another record in space world explorations by launching 20 satellites in a single mission from its spaceport in Sriharikota on Wednesday. In a precision launch, PSLV-C34 took off from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, about 110 km from Chennai at 9.26 AM and placed the Cartosat-2 Series and 19 others in the designated polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) about 30 minutes later in clear skies. #ISRO launches #PSLVC34 which will place a record 20 satellites in space @isro pic.twitter.com/GtNHVcQjKC — Doordarshan News (@DDNewsLive) June 22, 2016 Prime Minister  Narendra Modi  congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation for making new record with its historic launch of 20 satellites. Modi also acknowledged the ro

What changes do common people of India will benefited after the launch of IRNSS-1G?

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ISRO Launches 7th and Last Satellite for India's Own GPS in April 2016 Here is the question that , What changes will occur to Common peoples' life.   IRNSS means  Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System which is operated as NAVIC. it consists seven satellites of highly accurate coverage over the Indian subcontinent, up to 1,500 km from Indian borders, a region making up the primary service area. A less accurate extended service area would cover the region enclosed by latitude 30º south to 50º north, longitude 30º east to 130º east – that’s all of South East Asia except parts of Japan, northwest Australia, the Middle East, China and Mongolia, East Africa, and Madagascar. INRSS 1G is seventh of them. IRNSS will provide two services. 1) free one for civilians and 2)A strongly encrypted one for the military. The civilian service is called the Standard Positioning Service (SPS) and will have an accuracy of up to 20 meters while the encrypted Restricted Service (RS)