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Moscow (SPX) Nov 28, 2005 Russian Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said last Thursday that Russia planned to launch three GLONASS satellites on December 25, reports RIA Novosti. He said Russia also planned to eventually increase the number of GLONASS satellites in orbit to 17. They will have a seven-year service life, he said. According to Ivanov, Russia is developing new generation spacecraft. "They will be made much more multifunctional. We do not need the old Soviet type of satellites," Ivanov said. The group of Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System satellites, analogues to the United States' Global Position System (GPS) spacecraft, will be replenished by new generation, GLONASS-M, satellites with a seven-year service life and GLONASS-K satellites with a 10-year life. The satellites will provide information for Russia's military and civilian consumers worldwide and will raise the accuracy of tracking moving and stationary objects. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express
MVS Introduces Iridium-Based Ship Tracking Solution For Maritime Industry
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2005At the 2005 Europort Maritime exhibition in Rotterdam this month, mobile satellite service provider MVS introduced a new ship tracking solution that uses the Iridium global satellite network for short-burst data communications. |
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