“NavIC’s Clock Crisis, And The Indian Clocks That Could Fix It”, Swarajya, April 11, 2026
“On 13 March 2026, the last working atomic clock on India’s IRNSS-1F navigation satellite stopped ticking.
The satellite had launched exactly 10 years and three days earlier. It carried three atomic clocks. Two had already failed years ago. The third held on, alone, and gave out three days after the satellite crossed its 10-year design life.
With that, NavIC dropped to three functioning navigation satellites. You need four for a position fix. Three gets you nothing usable……”
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