Accordingly, the Russian government passed bills on ratifying bilateral agreements with Vietnam and Nicaragua as the basis for developing bilateral relations in the field of
A satellite belonging to the Glonass global positioning system of Russia has been decommissioned due to equipment malfunction.
Brazil became the first country outside Russia to receive part of its satellite navigation system, called Glonass, according to the Associated Press on February 20.
According to THX, on October 7, the head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), Mr. Vladimir Popovkin said that Russia has completed the deployment of Global Positioning
Russia's Soyuz-2.1B rocket carrying Glonass maritime satellite was launched into orbit this morning (3.10), AFP quoted Russian Defense Ministry sources as saying.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on December 29 fired two officials from the space agency after the failed rocket launcher lost three satellites.
Three Russian Glonass-M positioning satellites, launched into orbit on December 5, fell off the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Russia's GLONASS satellite navigation system, equivalent to the US GPS system, will cover the whole world later this year.
In the morning of March 2, Russia successfully launched three new satellite navigation orbits, complementing Russia's Glonass positioning satellite system operating in orbit.
In the next 3 years, Russia will launch 11 additional satellite satellites for GLONASS global positioning system.