Glonass Fleet To Have Full Capability by Year's End

摘要

Managers of Russia's Glonass satellite navigation constellation will reach their goal of having a full set of 24 functioning satellites in orbit by the end of this year, fulfilling a decade-long ambition to return Glonass to fully operational status alongside the U.S. GPS system, according to Grigory Stupak, deputy general designer of the Russian Institute of Space Device Engineering.