India successfully launches satellite to boost indigenous GPS alternative

India’s space agency successfully launched a navigation satellite on Friday night to strengthen the country’s indigenous alternative to GPS. The NVS-03 satellite, the third in Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) next-generation navigation series, was carried into orbit by the “GSLV-F18” rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, located on an island in the …