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Russia is planning to launch four more satellites in its Glonass global positioning system in the last months of this year, RIA Novosti reports from Russia's Aerospace Air Defense

On November 28, Russia launched a Soyuz Glonass-M guided satellite at the Plesetsk space center in the northwest of the country.

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

The Russian Federal Space Agency lost contact with a telecommunications satellite as soon as it was launched yesterday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on December 29 fired two officials from the space agency after the failed rocket launcher lost three satellites.