MOSCOW – Russia plans to launch five navigation satellite launches in 2020 to renew its Glonass Global Orbital Navigation Satellite System.
According to a source from the Roscosmos State Space Activities Corporation, he told Sputnik,
MOSCOW – Russia plans to launch five navigation satellite launches in 2020 to renew its Glonass Global Orbital Navigation Satellite System.
According to a source from the Roscosmos State Space Activities Corporation, he told Sputnik, all launches will take place at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the north of the country with Soyuz-2 rockets.
“Next year (2020), we plan to launch the last two Glonass-M series satellites and begin renewing the orbital constellation with next-generation devices. Two Glonass-K satellites and the first Glonass-Generation device will be launched,” said the expert.
The new generation Glonass-K and Glonass-K2 satellites are different from the previous generation Glonass-M device because they emit a larger number of navigation signals (Glonass-M emits five signals and Glonass-K and Glonass -K2 emit seven and nine signals respectively).
The new satellites are also superior in terms of service time. Glonass-M operate for seven years, against ten years of Glonass-K and Glonass-K2.
The Russian orbit fleet of Russian Glonass satellites currently has 27 space devices, including 25 Glonass-M satellites and two Glonass-K satellites.
Of these, 23 are operating according to their functional designation, one is in orbital reserve, one is in the testing phase and the other two are under maintenance.
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