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Russia has launched a navigation satellite successfully

Russia launched its Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the GLONASS-K navigation system from a northern cosmodrome on Monday, according to Interfax, citing the defence ministry. “Combat crews of the Space Forces …. successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with space navigation GLONASS-K system,” the agency cited the ministry as saying. The GLONASS-K satellite was launched on […]

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Russia has launched a navigation satellite successfully

Russia launched its Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the GLONASS-K navigation system from a northern cosmodrome on Monday, according to Interfax, citing the defence ministry.

“Combat crews of the Space Forces …. successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with space navigation GLONASS-K system,” the agency cited the ministry as saying.

The GLONASS-K satellite was launched on a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 kilometres (500 miles) north of Moscow.

GLONASS-K is a navigation satellite designed to be a component of Russia’s GLONASS radio-based satellite navigation system. Russia has spent billions of dollars over the last two decades developing the GLONASS system, which is seen as a potential competitor to the United States’ global positioning system (GPS).

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