India’s Own Navigation system – NAVIC

The Name NAVIC (NAVigation with Indian Constellation), You may not heard before, but it true that india is developed it's own navigation system called navic.

What is navigation system ?

Navigation system in simple laymen language is a system which provides exact location of position and help to navigate i. e. where you want from one place to anotther.

you already used the navigation system  called GPS (Global positioning System) in your smartphone or car for getting direction of various direction using google map, here map or apple map, this is navigation system which developed, managed and control by USA. now after some time you able to use navic system in your phone or car.

 

Who Developed NAVIC ?

NAVIC is developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research organization) & it is fully made in India, this is not an outcome of one year, ISRO first Launce IRNSS-1A on July 2013 and last IRNSS-1G lunch on April 2016, isro requires to launch 7 satellite in orbit to complete Indian navigation system, ISRO start to developed it before that.

 

Why India need NAVIC ?

it is an interesting story to know why india need NAVIC, where GPS which is developed by USA already working good and all other country also used GPS.

The answered is in 1999, When Pakistani troops took positions in Kargil, where Indian military sought was GPS data for the region. The space-based navigation system maintained by the US government would have provided vital information, but the US denied it to India. A need of our own navigation system requires earlier but during kargil war our experience made realized that we cannot depend on other nation for important navigation system.

 

Which Country has it own navigation system ?

Click here to find complete comparesion of navition system of deferent country.

 

at present USA and Russia has its own navigation system which is fully operational and complete, but Europe, china, Frans, and japan currently developing there system.Following are the country which develop there own navigation system. 

France and Japan are in the process of developing regional navigation systems.

Hoverer NAVIC is currently testing and will be operational in august, 2016. it is expected that NAVIC will work better than GPS and provides accurate information.

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