On April 28, 2016 at 07:20 UTC the PSLV-C33 rocket-carrier was launched from Sriharikota spaceport, 80 km from Chennai, India. The rocket orbited IRNSS 1G satellite (the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System). It was the seventh and final spacecraft for a regional navigation network to provide position data to users across the subcontinent independent of foreign satellite systems.