Top ISRO official bats for sovereign satellite navigation constellationIndia is pushing for its own satellite navigation system, NAVIC. This comes after recent GPS spoofing incidents at major airports like Delh...
02 Dec, 2025, 08.07 PM IST
How Isro plans to boost India's GPS-alternative Navic's reach beyond India's bordersThe ISRO is working on extending the coverage of its Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (NaVIC) from 1,500 km to 3,000 km beyond I...
27 Sep, 2023, 05.25 PM IST
From war to business to economy, why NavIC is the tech for a rising IndiaIndia's homegrown GPS alternative, NavIC, is gaining traction with Apple agreeing to incorporate it in its latest iPhone 15 smartphones. Th...
18 Sep, 2023, 01.11 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: What is NavIC? Indian GPS alternative will be mandatory in all smartphones by 2025Developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), NavIC is an Indian alternative to systems such as the widely used GPS. It was e...
15 Sep, 2023, 02.09 PM IST
NavIC support to become must for all smartphonesNavIC, or Navigation with Indian Constellation, is a homegrown alternative to systems such as the widely used GPS. NavIC currently has seve...
15 Sep, 2023, 11.45 AM IST
Apple iPhone 15 models to have India's GPS alternative NavicApple has incorporated India's navigation system, NavIC, in its newly launched iPhone 15 Pro models. NavIC, developed by ISRO, operates thr...
14 Sep, 2023, 09.46 PM IST
Talks on to include desi navigation app NavIC on phonesA meeting by Ministry of Electronics and IT was held on the issue on September 2, which was attended by officials from leading smartphone m...
27 Sep, 2022, 10.12 AM IST
Govt proposes to embed support for indigenous navigation system NavIC in all India-made smartphonesIndustry sources, however, said that a tentative timeline of January 2025 has been proposed for supporting NavIC in domestically manufactur...
26 Sep, 2022, 10.09 PM IST
What is NavIC? All you need to know about India's home-grown alternative to the GPS navigation systemThe Indian government is pushing smartphone makers to enable support for its NavIC navigation system in new devices sold in the country fro...
26 Sep, 2022, 05.45 PM IST
NavIC: Know about India's own GPS, now available on smartphoneThe Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is officially called NAVIC which is an acronym for NAVigation with Indian Constella...
28 Feb, 2020, 01.52 PM IST
ISRO helps chipmaker Qualcomm for enabling Indian GPS, NavIC, in smartphonesThe space agency said in a statement that these chipsets are being released by Qualcomm and this would help accelerate the adoption of NavI...
21 Jan, 2020, 03.53 PM IST
US Congress consents to designate India's NAVIC as allied systemIndigenously developed, NAVIC is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system that provides accurate real-time positioning and timing...
11 Dec, 2019, 11.32 AM IST
Mobile phones may have NaVIC system as early as next year: ISRO scientistNilesh Desai, Deputy Director of the ISRO's Space Applications Center, Ahmedabad said some mobile companies are working on having NaVIC in ...
07 Sep, 2018, 09.52 PM IST
- Navigation satellite clocks ticking; system to be expanded: ISRO
Chennai, June 10 (IANS) "The clocks are ticking." Every morning this announcement brings relief and not tension to the Indian space agency ...
10 Jun, 2017, 02.50 PM IST
- Navigation satellite clocks ticking; system to be expanded: ISRO
Chennai, June 10 (IANS) "The clocks are ticking." Every morning this announcement brings relief and not tension to the Indian space agency ...
10 Jun, 2017, 01.50 PM IST
India's own GPS set to hit the market early next yearFor many years now, India had been dependent on GPS, a project that the US began in 1973.
28 May, 2017, 11.25 AM IST
PM Modi's first two years have been 'Acche din' and 'naya savera' for India's space community. Here's howSince Modi took over, India's spaceship reached Mars, launch of India's mini space shuttle was a huge success, and ISRO started swadeshi sa...
12 Jun, 2016, 10.50 AM IST