A review of the history of the GLONASS program, its current status and an overview of the plans for the immediate future of the satellite constellation, its navigation signals and the ground support ...

A Soyuz booster rocket has successfully lifted a satellite for Moscow's prestige Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) into orbit, marking an important success for a project the Kremlin ...

Russia added another piece to its GLONASS satellite-navigation network on Monday (Nov. 28). A Soyuz rocket rocket topped with a GLONASS-M satellite lifted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in ...

GLONASS, Russia's homegrown alternative to the US-developed GPS system, employs a constellation of 31 satellites orbiting approximately 19,000 kilometres above Earth.

This April Russia launched a single GLONASS satellite, providing it with a full constellation of 24 satellites, the same number GPS needs to provide full global coverage. The GPS system has 30 ...

TASS/. New Glonass-K2 satellites will improve the accuracy of Russia’s satellite navigation system from 3-5 meters to 1 meter, Chief Designer of Glonass Company (the operator of the Era-Glonass ...

An agreement was also signed between the operators of the Russian high-altitude satellite system GLONASS and China's BeiDou, "on cooperation in the field of ensuring the complementarity of the ...

Under contracts China and Russia signed at a regular meeting on satellite navigation, GLONASS stations will be installed in three Chinese cities: Changchun in the northeast, Urumqi in the ...

"For meeting the customers' needs for top-notch services a high-orbit space segment of GLONASS will begin to be created in 2021, with the first satellite scheduled for launch in 2025," Karutin said.

China and Russia have agreed to coordinate their satellite navigation systems as the two countries further solidify their partnership to rival the US-owned GPS. This comes as Russian President ...