{"id":25245,"date":"2016-04-30T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/irnss-desi-gps-to-liberate-india-from-dependence-on-us-russia"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:07:45","slug":"irnss-desi-gps-to-liberate-india-from-dependence-on-us-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/irnss-desi-gps-to-liberate-india-from-dependence-on-us-russia","title":{"rendered":"IRNSS: Desi GPS to liberate India from dependence on US, Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/irnss-desi-gps-to-liberate-india-from-dependence-on-us-russia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India frees itself from the US &amp; Russian GPS system.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Back home, the mission control room of Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) resonated with thunderous applause. The scientists who were till then glued to their monitors burst into cheers. India\u2019s mini GPS, a regional positioning system, was ready to be rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister Narendra Modi who was watching the launch live from his office in Delhi congratulated the scientists. \u201cWith this successful launch, we will determine our own paths powered by our technology. This is an example of made in India and made for Indians,\u201d he said. The navigational structure was given a new name \u2014 NavIC (Navigation Indian Constellation) \u2014 by the prime minister. \u201c125 crore Indians have got a new Navic,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Desi GPS The seven-satellite constellation, IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System), is designed to provide a regional positioning system for India with the least number of satellites. It is expected to provide accurate position information service to users in India and 1,500 km around the Indian mainland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/science\/irnss-desi-gps-to-liberate-india-from-dependence-on-us-russia\/articleshow\/52058262.cms\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/science\/irnss-desi-...058262.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India frees itself from the US &amp; Russian GPS system. Back home, the mission control room of Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) resonated with thunderous applause. The scientists who were till then glued to their monitors burst into cheers. India\u2019s mini GPS, a regional positioning system, was ready to be rolled out. Prime minister Narendra Modi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50647,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245\/revisions\/50647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}