[FPSPACE] Russia launches a trio of GLONASS satellites

[James Oberg]

This has been a major effort, very impressive.

Now all they need are digital maps of their own
country with all the old Soviet-era geographical
distortions fixed. After all, it's been several years
now that it is no longer illegal for a Russian citizen
to possess accurate lat/long coordinates.

Having a domestic chip manufacture capability
would also help in making Russian-produced handsets
available to average citizens rather than just the MoD,
the government, and Putin's pet dog.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anatoly Zak" <agzak at optonline.net>
To: "Untitled" <FPSPACE at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:13 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] Russia launches a trio of GLONASS satellites


> According to Khrunichev, a Proton rocket completed another successful
> mission delivering a trio of GLONASS satellites into orbit. It looks like
> with three more launches of navsats scheduled for 2010, Russia is on track
> to return this constellation to its full operational capacity for the 
> first
> time since 1995:
>
> http://www.russianspaceweb.com/uragan.html
>
> Beautiful photos of today's liftoff were posted here:
>
> http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=8582
>
> Anatoly Zak
>
>
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