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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- NavIC is India's independent regional satellite navigation system, operated by ISRO, providing positioning services over India and a surrounding 1,500-kilometre region.
- How does NavIC differ from GPS?
- Why did India build its own navigation system?
- Is NavIC the same as GAGAN?
- Why has NavIC adoption in smartphones been slow?

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## Timeline

1. 1 July 2013

   The first satellite, IRNSS-1A, launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on , with the seventh, I…

2. 28 April 2016

   The first satellite, IRNSS-1A, launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on 1 July 2013, with the…

3. 29 May 2023

   Because IRNSS-1A's atomic clocks failed, replacement satellites including NVS-01—launched aboard a GSLV on as the first of the second-generation NVS series—…

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ISRO launched NVS-01, the first second-generation NavIC satellite carrying an indigenous rubidium atomic clock, aboard a GSLV from Sriharikota on 29 May 2023.

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