PSLV C24 places India’s second navigation in orbit

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): An Indian rocket carrying the country’s second navigation satellite — IRNSS-1B — Friday blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here in Andhra Pradesh. Exactly at 5.14 pm, the rocket - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C24 (PSLV-C24) standing around 44.4 metres tall and weighing around 320 tonnes - tore into the evening sky with orange flames fiercely burning at its tail. [caption id=“attachment_1466179” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. AFP[/caption] The space centre is around 80 km north of Chennai. IANS