Pakistan's GNSS to be functional by June 2013

[Safriz]

In Near future I'm seeing our Ballistic missiles (Shaheen 1 A and Shaheen 2) and Cruise Missiles using satellite guidance chips in their navigational systems.

babur is using it already...most probably.
because the pattern of the tests indicate this....
Has been discussed in the Babur information pool thread

 

[regular]

In Near future I'm seeing our Ballistic missiles (Shaheen 1 A and Shaheen 2) and Cruise Missiles using satellite guidance chips in their navigational systems.

In Nuclear warfare these sattelite systems could be jammed very easily.......through electromagnetic impulse by Nuclear explosion......

 

[Safriz]

In Nuclear warfare these sattelite systems could be jammed very easily.......through electromagnetic impulse by Nuclear explosion......

Only that Unlike GPS chinese Beidou have a backup system called Beidou-1 which is geo stationary and too high for being taken down easily...
Beidou-2 is MEO,but still at higher altitude than GPS..

Btw thats why Ballistic missiles (The primary vehicle for a nuclear strike) rely more on internal navigation system such as INS which does not rely on satellite signals.

 

[Safriz]

Funnily enough Indian GPS augmentation system called GAGAN Is also set to be operational 2013-2014.
By then Pakistan too will gave its own accurate Beidou signal.

 

[Tshering22]

Funnily enough Indian GPS augmentation system called GAGAN Is also set to be operational 2013-2014.
By then Pakistan too will gave its own accurate Beidou signal.

Actually GAGAN is different from IRNSS which apparently is what you are referring to. GAGAN is to be used for commercial aviation and transport while IRNSS when becomes operational would be a full fledged network similar to GPS and GLONASS having military and civilian signals.

Till then, we will continue operating military signals from GLONASS.

 

[Safriz]

^^^ Are you sure?
Satellite has been launched and switched on...but many other works are still incomplete...
GAGAN will be fully operatiinal in 2013-14.

 

[KRAIT]

IRNSS is totally independent , dedicated Indian regional navigation system/ Its linkage with GLONASS is to take away the dependency on US controlled GPS. So in case that US and Russia both decide not to give their service in any eventuality, India can rely on its regional Navigation system which essentially cover major part of our threats.

So the amount of independence is also a factor.

 

[Mujraparty]

^^^ Are you sure?
Satellite has been launched and switched on...but many other works are still incomplete...
GAGAN will be fully operatiinal in 2013-14.

Air navigation system GAGAN to help Jet Airways, Indian Airlines, others to cut fuel cost by upto 20% - Economic Times

GAGAN will catapult India into an elite league in air navigation: this is only the fourth such system in the world, after that of the US, European Union and Japan (see graphic). "It's an eye in the sky," says Amber Dubey partner, aviation, KPMG. "With ground-based systems (the current system), there's a need to have systems at every few kilometre. Here, one satellite tracks everything, and far more accurately."

GAGAN is a superior version of the current GPS system: it can detect activity at a finer level. So, while aircraft in India currently keep a distance of 80-100 miles, GAGAN will reduce this to 30 miles. This will allow thrice as many planes to fly, and reduce congestion on busy routes, as well as make Indian skies safer. Raman expects a six-fold increase in time. He also estimates airlines to reduce their flying time on the Delhi-Mumbai route by 10 minutes[/B].

A senior SpiceJet technical official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirms that airlines don't take a straight line between two destinations. "We take pre-determined routes set by the air traffic control centre. For example, between Delhi and Bangalore, we have to take a detour over Bhopal and do a series of deviations that add up to a much longer route," he says. "After GAGAN, we will have what is called 'freedom flights', leading to reduced fuel burn by 18-20%."

GAGAN will also make Indian skies safer. For example, while landing, the current system gives an aircraft the coordinates of a landing strip in a range of 20 metres. By comparison, GAGAN will give it in a range of 20 feet, thus reducing the possibility of human error.

As can be seen by its circle of influence in the world map in the graphic, GAGAN can position itself as an alternative to the Japanese MSAS system for airlines flying between Australia/Asia and Europe. That's the pitch AAI plans to make.

AAI is talking to its counterparts in Pakistan and Afghanistan, through the ministry of external affairs, to install ground stations in those countries.

GAGAN can also be used for wide range of applications in surveying and mapping, disaster management, transport and mining. For example, it can alert a regulator to mining activity outside a lease area. Those other uses will follow in time. First off, it will be Indian airlines who will tap GAGAn --- profitably.

 

[Yogi]

^^^ Are you sure?
Satellite has been launched and switched on...but many other works are still incomplete...
GAGAN will be fully operatiinal in 2013-14.

Actually there r 3 dedicated statellites for GAGAN, 2 have been launched n the last one will be launched by mid 2013 making GAGAN fully operational

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

Actually there r 3 dedicated statellites for GAGAN, 2 have been launched n the last one will be launched by mid 2013 making GAGAN fully operational

There are no dedicated satellite for GAGAN. We have GAGAN payloads on communication satellite, i.e. satellite are multi-purpose.

 

[Tshering22]

^^^ Are you sure?
Satellite has been launched and switched on...but many other works are still incomplete...
GAGAN will be fully operatiinal in 2013-14.

I am completely sure. The biggest stakeholder in development of GAGAN is AAI or Airports Authority of India. Its technology partner is a Spanish company called Indra while ISRO is just providing the launch facilities.

The idea to use GAGAN is to make airspace less crowded. It is a pain in the *** for pilots to keep hovering above Mumbai and other metro airports where there's a total lack of airspace. Around two-thirds of Indian airspace is controlled by the Ministry of Defense who won't budge from their adamant position on letting more space to civil aviation.

So? GAGAN is the solution. It is to basically utilize given airspace more efficiently, under safe conditions and to be able to accommodate more aircraft at a time.

Actually there r 3 dedicated statellites for GAGAN, 2 have been launched n the last one will be launched by mid 2013 making GAGAN fully operational

You're confusing IRNSS with GAGAN dude. IRNSS is massive compared to what GAGAN is. Don't mix up the two.

 

[Safriz]

We can bury our hopes of a Pakistani GNSS by 2013.
Government has cut funding of most defence projects and funds diverted to PPP cintituencies.

The lady responsible for overlooking the Project has gone to Canada,probably on imigration and currently nobody in SUPARCO is working on the Project..

R-I-P Pakistan's GNSS

 

[Gentelman]

wtf.....
let it be Pakistani sattilite discussing thread...
open a sepraye one for Indian sattelite system plzzzz......
thank you allz in advance elder brothers...
or maybe a younger one..

 

[S.Y.A]

We can bury our hopes of a Pakistani GNSS by 2013.
Government has cut funding of most defence projects and funds diverted to PPP cintituencies.

The lady responsible for overlooking the Project has gone to Canada,probably on imigration and currently nobody in SUPARCO is working on the Project..

R-I-P Pakistan's GNSS

...ab chaat lo jamhooriyat ko

 

[tarrar]

I think this will also help Pak Armed Drones (self made or purchased from China).