Chennai, Feb. 2 -- Amid basking in its glory of its 100th successful mission
of GSLV-F15/NVS02 Navigation satellite, the Indian Space Agency suffered a
minor setback as it could not raise the spacecraft's orbit due to a technical glitch,
despite deploying of solar panels on board immediately after the launch.
In a statement, ISRO on Sunday late night update said the satellite's technical
glitch had delayed in the orbit raising maneuvers.
"Subsequent to the launch, the solar panels on board the satellite were successfully
deployed and power generation is nominal. Communication with the ground station
has been established", it said.
"But the orbit raising operations towards positioning the satellite to the designated
orbital slot coul...