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Glonass: Putin wants it to operate in 2007

Moscow, Russia - Russian President intends to accelerate schedule to make the global positioning system enter service

The first Russian Glonass global positioning system satellite was put into orbit in 1982 but the officialization of the programme was announced only in 1993. The system schedules a total number of 24 satellites useful for ground, sea and air navigation and is the Russian counterpart of the US GPS (Europe has produced instead a similar system, the Galileo). Russian President, Vladimir Putin, intends...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 133734
Rome, Italy, 12/27/2005 13:59
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