ISRO provides consultation to Qualcomm on NavIC capability

Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation on Tuesday said it has provided “consultation” to San Diego-based chipmaker Qualcomm towards enabling NavIC capability in their Snapdragon mobile chipset platforms.

The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), also called NavIC–Navigation with Indian Constellation–is reportedly on par with US-based GPS, Russia’s Glonass and Galileo developed by Europe.