Iran space navigation system to be launched

TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (MNA) – National plan to improve navigation and positioning services will soon become operational with special features. Iran’s very modern system of navigation and positioning system has been produced by Iran Electronics Industries (IEI) as the executive and with the support of Iran's National Space Center as one of the subordinate units of the Science and Technology Department of the Presidential Office. The system aims to provide advanced services to increase life quality of Iranian people and will soon become operational providing the whole country with the possibility to simultaneously exploit three highly-advanced global positioning systems called GPS, GLONAA as well as BeiDou. Numerous valuable services offered by the system with centimeter accuracy include car navigation, crisis management, social services, mapping, identification of stationary and moving targets, precision farming, urban traffic control, tracking oil and gas pipelines, environmental services, advanced housing and urban development services, customs issues and smuggling prevention, accurate harness of fire, current and advanced insurance services, shipping services and ports, fine weather forecast. The implementation of the navigation and positioning system will be carried out in three phases in 2016. In the first phase, a total of 15 network stations and two data centers will be launched in Tehran as an experiment to collect accurate position information. After the implementation of the first phase in Tehran, the second phase of the project will be implemented in major cities while the third phase the whole country will be covered by the system. The hardware of the system is supposed to be available to users who will only be charged for a very low annual cost.