The new ISRO Navigation Centre (INC) located at ISRO’s saucer-like Byalalu sprawl near Bangalore to be the nerve centre of the country’s forthcoming navigational satellite constellation.
The Navigation Centre, located at the Indian Deep Space Network, will come alive in time to handle the country’s first regional navigational satellite, R1A, gets launched at midnight on June 12 from Sriharikota through PSLV vehicle.
More navigational spacecraft like R1B, R1C etc totally six, will follow in the next three years to form the IRNSS constellation i.e, India’s own regional GPS. These satellites will give data on the position, navigation and time of persons or objects to a range of users.
INC houses a high stability atomic clock to keep precise time and reference, pool and synthesise navigational messages and coordinate 21 ground stations across the country. The navigation fleet in space will give positional accuracy of within 10 metres. Its users will be from aerospace, military, all transport systems, geo information of the Survey of India and to an extent for personal mobility.
The Byalalu campus has large antennas of 32-metre and 18-m diameter to track planetary projects such as the Mars and the lunar missions. A Mars orbiter mission will take off either in October or early November so as to leave Earth’s atmosphere by November 27.
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