ISRO’s NVS-03 navigation satellite ‘fully healthy’ after October 30 launch: Chairman V. Narayanan

CHENNAI: ISRO’s next-generation navigation satellite NVS-03, launched on October 30 to strengthen India’s NavIC regional satellite navigation system, is “fully healthy”, ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan said on Thursday (November 5, 2026).

Speaking at the inauguration of the statue of legendary astronaut Yuri Gagarin at the Periyar Science and Technology Centre, Mr. Narayanan said, “NVS-03, successfully launched on October 30 midnight, was perfectly placed in the elliptical orbit.

From there, we operated the engine of the satellite for 6,400 seconds to the circular orbit. Right now, the satellite is fully healthy. We have to do a lot of in-orbit testing for the satellite payload and others.”