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NavIC — India's Satellite Navigation

NavIC is India's own regional satellite-positioning system, ISRO's homegrown answer to GPS, giving the country sovereign control over where its people, ships and forces are and what time it is. It fixes location across India and a belt reaching roughly 1,500 km past the coastline. In 2026 the network sits at a crossroads: of its eight working satellites only three still send full navigation signals, even as ISRO fields a modernised second-generation fleet that opens the civilian L1 frequency and flies India's first home-built atomic clocks.

Last updated 14 July 20265 min read

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Constellation stretched thin: only 3 of 8 working NavIC satellites still broadcast full navigation signals (Mar 2026); the second-gen NVS series with L1 and indigenous clocks is the fix.

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