{"id":1046453,"date":"2026-11-02T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046453"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:04:59","slug":"how-isros-nvs-03-satellite-launch-could-improve-navigation-on-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/how-isros-nvs-03-satellite-launch-could-improve-navigation-on-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"How ISRO\u2019s NVS-03 satellite launch could improve navigation on smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s own satellite-navigation network got a boost on Friday as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched NVS-03. ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said the mission restored NavIC to the minimum four-satellite configuration needed for basic standalone positioning services.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite was carried into space by the GSLV-F18 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on October 30 (Friday). After a flight of about 18 minutes, NVS-03 was injected into its intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) early on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s own satellite-navigation network got a boost on Friday as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched NVS-03. ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said the mission restored NavIC to the minimum four-satellite configuration needed for basic standalone positioning services. The satellite was carried into space by the GSLV-F18 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on October 30 (Friday). After a flight of about 18 minutes, NVS-03 was injected into its intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) early on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046463,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046453\/revisions\/1046463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}