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Glonass-M satellite
June 22 , 2018
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- Russia has successfully launched Glonass-M positioning satellite on board of Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center.
- The GLONASS (Russian acronym for Global Navigation Satellite System) network provides real-time positioning data for surface, sea and airborne objects around the globe, at an accuracy reportedly on par with the U.S. Global Positioning System.
- With this launch, there are now 26 Glonass satellites in orbit.
- It was built by Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (formerly NPO-PM). It has design life of 7 years which is significantly higher than that of previous generation of Glonass satellites.
- The heart of the satellite is Caesium atomic clock that provides accurate timing reference needed to generate navigation data.
- Glonass is Russian Satellite Navigation System considered as counterpart to GPS of US, Galileo of European Union (EU) and Beidou of China.
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