From the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday India has successfully catapulted the seventh and last in the series of the constellation of Regional Navigation Satellite System, IRNSS-1G on board PSLV-C33 and as the satellite system was successfully catapulted, the scientists broke into celebrations.


The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) which comprises seven satellites would be able to provide navigation system with much better accuracy and targeted position, while four satellites would be sufficient to start operations of the IRNSS system and the remaining three would make it more accurate and efficient.


The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated the team ISRO for the success of the ISRO mission and he has also greeted the nation on the occasion and has stated that India's advances in space technology will improve the life of the common man and India is only fifth country in the world which has its own GPS system. 


ISRO had catapulted the sixth navigation satellite IRNSS-1F on March 10, the other five being IRNSS-1A on July 1, 2013, IRNSS-1B (April 4, 2014), IRNSS-1C (October 16, 2014), IRNSS-1D (March 28, 2015) and IRNSS-1E (January 20, 2016).



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