Jan7th

Three More Glonass Satellites Launched

Posted at 5:21 am | Filed Under GPS devices

The Russian space agency Roscosmos launched a venerable Proton rocket carrying three GLONASS-M satellites into orbit on December 14. Each 3,000-pound satellite is designed to last seven years. They join a constellation now numbering 19 satellites, although one of those is about to be decommissioned and two more are out of service for maintenance.

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