India to launch first navigational satellite on June 12
Bangalore: India is ready to launch its first navigational satellite, which will provide terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation services and help in disaster and fleet management, on June 12.
Bangalore-headquartered ISRO has planned to have a constellation of seven satellites under IRNSS by 2014-15. IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system, and once all the spacecraft become operational, it would provide position accuracy, similar to Global Positioning System (GPS), of better than 10 metres over India and the region extending about 1,500 km around the country.
“It is designed to provide an accurate real time Position, Navigation and Time (PNT) services to users on a variety of platforms with 24×7 service availability under all weather conditions”, the official said.
IRNSS provides two basic services, positioning service for common civilian users and restricted service for special authorized users, the official said.
