ISRO's NavIC: Know about India's own GPS, now available on smartphone
WHAT IS NAVIC? Navigation with Indian Constellation ( NAVIC ) is the operational name of The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System as suggested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after launch. It covers India as well as a region extending 1500km around. ISRO has the plan for further extension and they are working on it. It is a very significant achievement for the country. In common language, we can say NAVIC is basically Indian GPS or Desi GPS . WHY AND WHEN WAS IT STARTED? Someone once said “Necessity is the mother of invention” and NAVIC is the best example of this proverb. In the Kargil war, India was expecting to take the help of Global Positioning System GPS to track the Pakistan soldiers but the spaced navigation system maintained by the US government denied it to India. A need for a navigation system was felt together but that war experience made India reali...