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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Russia’s Glonass satellite navigation system is protected against technical issues that earlier knocked down its European rival, Galileo, a spokesperson for Russia’s ...

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 ...

TASS/. Uzbekistan may gain access to the high-precision signal of the Russian GLONASS satellite system. Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to hold talks on this issue. "To accept the ...

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 ...