Stealth_HR Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 Taken from geof.hr and index.hr on Dec 26th 2006. LATE last night Russia launched a Proton-K rocket equipped with three satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, prepaired for use in the GLONASS global positioning system. Along with GPS and Galileo, GLONASS is the third such system in the world, and it's planned that by year 2009 11 additional satellites will be launched alongside the currect 13, enclosing the network that'll be used by both the army and civilians. By the end of 2007, there should be a total of 18 satellites in orbit. In November, the russian minister of defense, Sergey Ivanov, proclaimed that the restriction which limits its precision to 30 meters will be lifted for GLONASS' civilian operators. The project itself was started by the USSR in 1982., but has only been formally announced in September 1993, when Russia took the project over. Last night's satellites are the new model, Glonass-M, which has higher precision and a longer lifespan, while next year's models, the Glonass-K, will be even more advanced. Anatoliy Perminov, the director of Roskozmos, the russian space agency, is currently in negotiations with the american NASA and european ESA about creating an interlink between GPS and GLONASS. ABRIS, here we come... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Real men fly ground attack :pilotfly: where EVERYTHING wants a piece of you :D
herig2 Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 If negotiations with Russian, NASA, and ESA are forth coming there will be one planet, as in Star Trek. Not good for LOMAC pilots, ( no one to fight ) but it will be good for everyone else. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Pilotasso Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 these 3 glonnass satelites are out of LOMAC time frame, so... :D .
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