June 10, 2024: Once more, the Russian GLONASS is in trouble. The problem is a familiar one, too many GLONASS satellites are ending their service lives, usually seven years, and Roscosmos, the Russian ...

Heads up, Hawaii! Three Russian GLONASS satellites just went into the Pacific drink courtesy a failed Proton-M rocket launch in Kazakhstan. Дерьмо! For the uninitiated, GLONASS stands for GLObal ...

The DM-type Space Upper Stage delivered three Russian satellites of the Glonass navigation system (two Glonass satellites and one Glonass-M satellite) to near-earth orbit. The Upper Stage with ...

MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. The GLONASS navigation satellite constellation currently consists of 24 satellites operating reliably in orbit, with four additional satellites prepared for launch to ...

GPS has become shorthand for location data, but the US satellite system is only one of several planned or live systems. The Russian GLONASS is its closest competitor, with 22 satellites providing ...

Russia aims to complete modernization of its entire GLONASS satellite navigation system by the end of the decade and is crafting plans for a new generation of lower flying spacecraft. All GLONASS-M ...

MOSCOW — Russia replenished its Glonass satellite navigation system with three more spacecraft launched onboard a Proton M with a DM upper stage on Dec. 14. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

Three spacecraft (SC) as part of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) have been successfully placed in a target near-earth orbit having an altitude of 19130 km and inclination of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia restored contact on Wednesday with a military satellite that went missing the day before after entering into the wrong orbit, in the latest setback to the Kremlin's ambitious ...

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 ...

Keeping GLONASS active with a full constellation of 24 satellites with the latest technology is expensive and used to depend on a steady supply of high-tech components only available from the United ...

For the third year in a row, the Christmas holidays were chosen as the launch date for Russia to deliver a special present to Topcon Positioning System (TPS) customers using precise positioning ...