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 ...

GLONASS was at full strength in 1996, shortly after the Cold War ended. But the end of the Cold War in 1991 meant the end of the regular financing for GLONASS. Maintaining the system required ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, a study introduced a novel method that significantly enhances the precision and efficiency of precise orbit determination and clock estimation the Global Positioning System (GPS), BeiDou, ...