03-01-2010, 06:46 PM
[quote name='Gagan' date='28 February 2010 - 09:59 PM' timestamp='1267411860' post='104659']
Wiki says that India was supposed to have started launching IRNSS in Dec 09 and the constellation was to be in place by 2012.
Is there a delay here?
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AFAIK, there was a problem building an atomic clock for the constellation.Guess it was resolved now.
And again,only single sat launch every time was considered using PSLV. But now they wanted to use GSLV to send 2 sats in a go.This will reduce costs and total time.
IMHO,we should better go for a global instead of a regional.considering the cost of the whole project for 7 sats and ground stations I dont think the global coverage will loot the taxpayers.But its worth in recashing the services offered due to the low costs of Indian service(which can be attractive)
Wiki says that India was supposed to have started launching IRNSS in Dec 09 and the constellation was to be in place by 2012.
Is there a delay here?
[/quote]
AFAIK, there was a problem building an atomic clock for the constellation.Guess it was resolved now.
And again,only single sat launch every time was considered using PSLV. But now they wanted to use GSLV to send 2 sats in a go.This will reduce costs and total time.
IMHO,we should better go for a global instead of a regional.considering the cost of the whole project for 7 sats and ground stations I dont think the global coverage will loot the taxpayers.But its worth in recashing the services offered due to the low costs of Indian service(which can be attractive)