New Delhi, February 3: The ISRO’s NVS-2 propelled to the space on January 29 reportedly could not reach the desired orbit due to technical snags.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) suffered the setback as the thrusters on board the spacecraft failed to fire, the space agency said.
Due to the thruster problems, the satellite is yet orbiting the Earth in an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) which is not suitable for the navigation system, the ISRO added.
Launched on January 29 at Shriharikota in Andhra Pradesh aboard the GSLV-Mk 2 rocket, the NVS-02 satellite was a key component of India's indigenous space-based navigation system.
"But the orbit raising operations towards positioning the satellite to the designated orbital slot could not be carried out as the valves for admitting the oxidizer to fire the thrusters for orbit raising did not open," the space agency said in an update to the GSLV-F15 mission on its website.
Communication with the ground station has been established to take care of the technical glitches , the space agency said.
