Science, Discovery, Tech and Environment · 2 December 2025
ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan Inaugurates Ananth Technologies' Centre of Excellence in Navigation
Exam-focused facts from the 2 December 2025 current affairs briefing.
Key facts
- Private companies entering work of building navigation systems for spacecraft and defence supports Viksit Bharat 2047.
- Navigation systems are highly complex and critical which ISRO alone could not develop.
- Ananth Technologies has entered navigation field in Thiruvananthapuram.
- Ananth Technologies works closely with ISRO, DRDO, and BrahMos.
- Centre of Excellence in Navigation aims to achieve full strategic autonomy for India in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technologies.
- India has been heavily reliant on imported navigation technology for space missions and missile and defence systems.
- Gaganyaan mission has completed 8,000 tests including propulsion hot tests, simulations, structural tests, and acoustic tests.
- Gaganyaan in final stages of software development and simulation with 2027 target and three unmanned missions before manned.
- ISRO to launch first private PSLV-N1 in this financial year.
- ISRO preparing for BlueBird mission.