Russia has launched a new satellite to replenish its GLONASS navigation system Tuesday, via a Soyuz-2-1b rocket with a Fregat-M upper stage. The launch took place at 11:54 Moscow Time (08:54 UTC ...

MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. JSC GLONASS, the operator of Russia’s commercial satellite orbital grouping, is switching to self-recoupment and the Russian government will stop its financing from ...

There are currently two satellite-based navigation systems deployed, the American controlled system known as GPS or Navstar and the Russian system GLONASS. There are a number of similarities between ...