<p>India’s Global Positioning System (GPS), known as the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), and GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) will be ready by March 2016.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Indian Satellite Research Organisation (Isro) aims to make signals from these satellites available not only to India and its surrounding countries, but also to the entire globe, Isro chairman A S Kiran Kumar said.<br /><br />Kumar was speaking after inaugurating the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) User Meet 2015 at the Isro Satellite Centre (ISAC) here on Thursday, that was jointly organised by Isro and the Airports Authority of India (AAI).<br /><br />All the seven satellites of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) are expected to be in orbit by March 2016. Four are in orbit at present. Two satellites of the GAGAN System are also in orbit and two more have to be launched, the Isro chairman said.<br /><br />GSAT-15 satellite with GAGAN payload is slated for launch by November 10, Kumar said. “Today we have two of the GAGAN systems in operation also providing service. Four of the navigation satellites (IRNSS) are up in the space and providing the data. The next GAGAN payload is going up on GSAT-15 which is at the launch pad right now. We expect by March 2016 all the seven constellation of IRNSS to be in orbit,” he said.<br /><br />The space agency chief said that “in this backdrop, the activities are going on the way we need to take forward the objective of self-reliance. Not only self-reliance, but also trying to provide, extend the process of making these signals available not only within and surrounding our country, but also looking around the globe is also one of the important aspects we will be looking at.” He also complimented AAI and Civil Aviation Department for their efforts in helping Isro provide navigation service to the country, making it only the fourth in the world to provide such service. “....Already, we are having within the country provisions of providing it, we are also looking at how we can extend it to SAARC countries and in the near future gradually extend it over the entire globe,” he said.<br /><br />Asked how global, he said, “A set of regional things you add, it becomes global, it is a thought process on which we are now working with a few countries...right now, we are doing 1500 km beyond the border, so we can keep adding regions to those things and get global.” Stating that discussions are on with Korea and Gulf countries, he said, “Slowly, we will extend beyond that; it is a matter of less than a decade.”<br /><br /></p>
<p>India’s Global Positioning System (GPS), known as the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), and GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) will be ready by March 2016.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Indian Satellite Research Organisation (Isro) aims to make signals from these satellites available not only to India and its surrounding countries, but also to the entire globe, Isro chairman A S Kiran Kumar said.<br /><br />Kumar was speaking after inaugurating the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) User Meet 2015 at the Isro Satellite Centre (ISAC) here on Thursday, that was jointly organised by Isro and the Airports Authority of India (AAI).<br /><br />All the seven satellites of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) are expected to be in orbit by March 2016. Four are in orbit at present. Two satellites of the GAGAN System are also in orbit and two more have to be launched, the Isro chairman said.<br /><br />GSAT-15 satellite with GAGAN payload is slated for launch by November 10, Kumar said. “Today we have two of the GAGAN systems in operation also providing service. Four of the navigation satellites (IRNSS) are up in the space and providing the data. The next GAGAN payload is going up on GSAT-15 which is at the launch pad right now. We expect by March 2016 all the seven constellation of IRNSS to be in orbit,” he said.<br /><br />The space agency chief said that “in this backdrop, the activities are going on the way we need to take forward the objective of self-reliance. Not only self-reliance, but also trying to provide, extend the process of making these signals available not only within and surrounding our country, but also looking around the globe is also one of the important aspects we will be looking at.” He also complimented AAI and Civil Aviation Department for their efforts in helping Isro provide navigation service to the country, making it only the fourth in the world to provide such service. “....Already, we are having within the country provisions of providing it, we are also looking at how we can extend it to SAARC countries and in the near future gradually extend it over the entire globe,” he said.<br /><br />Asked how global, he said, “A set of regional things you add, it becomes global, it is a thought process on which we are now working with a few countries...right now, we are doing 1500 km beyond the border, so we can keep adding regions to those things and get global.” Stating that discussions are on with Korea and Gulf countries, he said, “Slowly, we will extend beyond that; it is a matter of less than a decade.”<br /><br /></p>