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Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Friday, 24 January 2020
Did you know that GPS was a project started by the US Department of Defence in 1973? GPS’s services were made available to the public in 1980s. India has been working on its own system and the necessary set of satellites for this since 2013. India’s homegrown positioning system, NavIC (NAVigation with Indian Constellation) will be available for civilian use in the first half of this year. The constellation can provide location data within 10 meters of accuracy. In 2017, the Space Application Centre (SAC), based in the western city of Ahmedabad said this is much better than the 20-30 meters accuracy…
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