Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful 89
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.
Re:Out of curiosity... (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, I really fucked that up, teach me to post while sick. Anyway, my intent was to suggest that a coverage area that gets you a good chunk of southeast asia, a bit of middle east, plus the entire Indian subcontinent, some stuff to the north of it, and the Indian ocean(not exactly an abandoned bit of water, for shipping and all) seems quite likely to be worth shoving into the spec sheet if you just need to implement a few additional algorithms(that something else in your product line for the Indian market will need anyway); but without world coverage it wouldn't be worth actually increasing the BoM cost all that much.
Re:Out of curiosity... (Score:3, Insightful)
I'd have an easier time understanding english from India than amurikan from Texas.