Thursday, 12 April 2018

Navigational Satellite

Navigational Satellite is a group of satellite that provide geographical location of object on the earth.It is also used to find the rout or destination address of the object,show the rout of ships and airplane and if anyone forget there rout then through navigational satellite we can find them.Google map is work on the basis of navigational satellite GPS(Global Positioning System).
Now a days only four country USA,RUSSIA,EUROPEAN UNION and CHINA`have their own navigational satellite.But INDIA have also launch their own navigation satellite and very soon it will work.
Navigational satellite and their country name is following

1)NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS)  -USA  32 medium earth orbit satellites operations since 1978
 
2) GLONASS - Russian since 1995 

3) Galilio - European Union - 30 MEO satelites some are  operations since 2014 , expected to be in full service till 2020 
 
4)Beidou-2  - China  , 30 MEO satellites , expanding current regional service into global by 2020

5)IRNSS- INDIA, It is set of eight satellite IRNSS1A,IRNSS1B,IRNSS1C,IRNSS1D,IRNSS1E,IRNSS1F,IRNSS1G,IRNSS1I

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