Apple surprised the tech world this week by silently adding support for the Russian satellite navigation system known as GLONASS to the feature list of its new iPhone 4S smartphone. According to the ...

At the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee meeting in Portland, Oregon, on September 20, Sergey Revnivykh, Deputy Director General of Roscosmos’s Central Research Institute of Machine Building, ...

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GNSS also uses the best positioned satellites to calculate the current position, with satellites positioned between 70 and 90 degrees being the best for calculating vertical position. Satellites ...

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 ...

MUNICH — Russian government space officials on March 1 and March 2 said they would launch five Glonass-M satellites this year to bring the in-orbit constellation past the key milestone of 24 ...

In the United States, the Global Positioning System (GPS)—a global satellite navigation system—is synonymous with position and location awareness, and has become an essential tool in business and ...

May 26, 2020: Russia’s answer to the American GPS system is stalled because sanctions have cut off essential supplies of electronic components needed to build new satellites. Not just the Glonass ...

A Soyuz booster rocket has successfully lifted a satellite for Moscow's prestige Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) into orbit, marking an important success for a project the Kremlin hopes ...