Russians take GLONASS system commercial [Purple Avenger]

GLONASS is the Russian analog of the USA's GPS system.

The choppy translation of the original article's Cyrillic was done with Google's automated translation tools. Crude, but you can get the sense of the piece from it. Curiously, this article about the GLONASS system doesn't appear on the English Pravda web site.

Pravda

...Decree of the President of Russia on May 17, 2007 actually GLONASS opened to domestic and foreign users. Orbital group, which serves purely for military purposes, was made available to the ordinary citizens that in the future an opportunity to exploit the system, including on a commercial basis, not just hoping for a budget.

Moreover, in the interest of national security, public authorities are obliged to use only the same satellite navigation equipment, which is compatible with the GLONASS.

In fact, made major organizational and legal steps to ensure the independence of Russia from the American GPS global system, which has a monopoly in the field of satellite navigation...

More here from JPL on the GLONASS system

If JPL is right, GLONASS doesn't have quite the resolution that GPS can be capable of.

posted by xgenghisx at 10:16 PM

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