{"id":29942,"date":"2025-02-07T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29942"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:35:19","slug":"navigation-with-indian-constellation-navic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/navigation-with-indian-constellation-navic\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Navigation with Indian Constellation Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>ISRO recently faced a setback in its mission to position the NVS-02 satellite in the desired orbit due to thruster failure, but is working on alternative strategies to utilise the satellite in its current elliptical orbit for the NavIC navigation system.<\/p>\n<h2>About Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC)<\/h2>\n<p>NavIC is <strong>India\u2019s independent regional navigation satellite system <\/strong>designed to provide accurate <strong>Position, Velocity, and Timing (PVT) serviceto users in Indiaas well as <\/strong>the region extending about <strong>1500 km beyond the Indian landmass,<\/strong> which is its primary service area.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>satellite-based navigation system<\/strong> developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (<strong>ISRO<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>The first NavIC satellite was launched in July of 2013.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>As of 2022, the NavIC system consists of <strong>eight satellites<\/strong>, <strong>three of them in geostationary orbit<\/strong>s and <strong>five in inclined geosynchronous orbits,<\/strong> with plans to expand to 12 satellites.<strong> Currently, 7 satellites are active.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>NavIC <strong>offers two services:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Standard Position Service (SPS) for civilian users.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R<strong>estricted Service (RS) for strategic users.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The system provides positioning accuracy of better than 10 metres (10.9 yards) throughout India and better than 20 m (21.9 yards) for the area surrounding India by 1,500 km (932 miles).<\/li>\n<li>NavIC SPS signals are <strong>interoperable with the other global navigation satellite system<\/strong> (GNSS) signals namely <strong>GPS, Glonass, Galileo and BeiDou.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Navigation with Indian Constellation Applications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Transportation (terrestrial, aerial and marine)<\/li>\n<li>Location -based services<\/li>\n<li>Personal mobility<\/li>\n<li>Resource monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Surveying and geodesy<\/li>\n<li>Scientific research<\/li>\n<li>Time dissemination and synchronisation<\/li>\n<li>Safety-of-life alert dissemination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0Navigation with Indian Constellation FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. When was the NavIC launched?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The first NavIC satellite was launched in July of 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the old name of NavIC?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The old name of NavIC was IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is GPS?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigation system developed by the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/isros-navigation-satellite-mission-nvs-02-faces-setback-navic-orbit-adjustment-2673727-2025-02-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) is a satellite-based navigation system developed by (ISRO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}