With seven more satellites, Isro plans to give citizens access to navigation signals | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Isro is working to make India’s own Regional Navigation System (NaVIC) easily accessible to citizens soon as the precise positioning system has been limited to strategic use so far, said Pawan Goenka, chairman of space regulator and promoter INSPACe. He said, “Isro aims to launch a dozen satellites every year by 2025, including six GSLV is launched“, to meet the growing demand of the space sector.
‘We are introducing seven navigation satellites with a new L1 band that will make NaVIC signals accessible in citizen mobile phones with a compatible chipset. Of the seven, one satellite has already been launched. Previously launched navigation satellites operated on different bands (L5 and S),” Goenka told a media roundtable.
He said NaVIC (Navigation With Indian Constellation) is more accurate than other navigation systems in the world and the government is working to increase its reach.
NaVIC offers a positioning accuracy of better than 10 meters across India and better than 20 meters for the area around India 1,500 km away.
Announcements on the establishment of INSPACe, space policy and FDI policy have given the sector a much-needed boost, the chairman said, adding, “our next goal is to introduce space legislation, which the country does not have”. “We have prepared the first draft and will send it for consultation, after which it will go to the ministry for approval before cabinet approval. The entire process will be completed by the end of this year or in the first quarter of next year,” he said. said.
To grab a lion’s share of the $5.2 billion worldwide small satellite marketIsro plans to focus on small launch vehicles and satellites, Goenka said. Isro’s mini launcher SSLV has therefore been developed for this purpose and its technology will be transferred to the private sector in the next two years.