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India is developing a highly sophisticated indigenous Global Positioning Systems which will be operational in the next three years.
K. Radhakrishnan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) said that the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) will be operational in three years. He also hinted at new revolutions in the area of satellite navigation. The IRNSS is similar to the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the U.S.
The IRNSS will be covering the Indian Ocean region and will provide positional accuracy of about 10 meters. The IRNSS will be implemented using seven satellites, three in the geostationary transfer orbits and four in non-geostationary orbits.
Radhakrishnan indicated that there is an international coordinating group under the United Nations Committee on Peaceful use of Outer Space that manages issues related to interoperability among the GPS, the Russian Glonass, the European Galileo and the Indian IRNSS, as and when it will be operational.
In the areas of satellite navigation, India will have a space-based augmentation of the GPS system ‘Gagan’ (GPS-aided Geo-augmented Navigation, which the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed with the U.S. defence major Raytheon, to begin with.‘Gagan’ will be in place in a year and a half and is primarily meant to aid precise landing of aircraft.
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