ISRO successfully carries out its 4th and final orbit raising operation of IRNSS-1I navigation satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully carried out its fourth and final orbit raising operation of IRNSS-1I navigation satellite at around 21:05hrs tonight.

The targeted perigee height is 35,381 km and apogee height is 35,793 km. The third orbit raising operation of the satellite was successfully carried out last night.

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Regional Navigation Satellite System, IRNSS-1I is the eighth and the last navigation satellite in the constellation.It is designed indigenously to provide accurate position information service to the users in India. The Polar Satellite Launch vehicle PSLV-C41 had successfully launched the satellite from Sriharikota last Thursday.