Chennai, Feb 2 (Reporter) 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 could not be carried out as the valves for admitting the oxidizer to fire the thrusters for orbit raising did not open,” its aid. The satellite had “failed to fire” after it was placed in orbit. As per the monitoring data at the Master Control Facility, the satellite NVS-02 remains stationary in about the same position where it was injected on January 29, that marked ISRO's 100th mission from the spaceport of Sriharikota. However, an unperturbed ISRO was working on using the onboard engines to perform a series of orbit maneuvers to place the satellite in the intended geostationary orbit. The ISRO was is scheduled to carry out the orbit raising operations after the launch, but has been unable to perform the manoeuvres due to the glitch. The operations were to be executed by the Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka. “The satellite systems are healthy and the satellite is currently in elliptical orbit. Alternate mission strategies for utilising the satellite for navigation in an elliptical orbit is being worked out,” the ISRO said...////...