The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing an indigenous position determination system that will potentially replace the American Global Positioning System (GPS) used to get the time and place information anywhere on or near the earth.
It’s time India is moving to its own desi (indigenous) navigation system and making revolutionary phase in navigation system field — the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) on mobile phones. One of the posts talks about successful launch of this project and now India is ready to reap the results.
ISRO feels that seven IRNSS constellation satellites, once operational by July next year, will be significantly more accurate than the American GPS system and all the seven satellites are expected to be in orbit by March 2016. The IRNSS is expected to provide location accuracy to almost 20 metres. US-owned GPS has accuracy is also estimated to be around the same in India.
The advantage of IRNSS is that the navigation range has been designed to span around 1,500 km radius around India. Existing GPS system is not available at all places in India and signal are weak in remote areas but through IRNSS, signal will be expected to be available in remote areas with better accuracy.
With this initiative, it is expected that India will undergo major change in Indian navigation system, manufacturing devices and its services. Interesting? Let us witness the change.
Source: ISRO, IndiaTimes
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It’s time India is moving to its own desi (indigenous) navigation system and making revolutionary phase in navigation system field — the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) on mobile phones. One of the posts talks about successful launch of this project and now India is ready to reap the results.
ISRO feels that seven IRNSS constellation satellites, once operational by July next year, will be significantly more accurate than the American GPS system and all the seven satellites are expected to be in orbit by March 2016. The IRNSS is expected to provide location accuracy to almost 20 metres. US-owned GPS has accuracy is also estimated to be around the same in India.
The advantage of IRNSS is that the navigation range has been designed to span around 1,500 km radius around India. Existing GPS system is not available at all places in India and signal are weak in remote areas but through IRNSS, signal will be expected to be available in remote areas with better accuracy.
With this initiative, it is expected that India will undergo major change in Indian navigation system, manufacturing devices and its services. Interesting? Let us witness the change.
Source: ISRO, IndiaTimes
The post India’s Desi Navigation System, IRNSS appeared first on Geoawesomeness.