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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Russia plans rapid boost to GLONASS sat force

Russia plans to nearly double its number of orbiting GLONASS communications satellites over the next three years.

The ambitious program clearly has the long-term strategic goal of making all Russian military and civilian-economic communications and navigation independent of the U.S. Global Positioning System as quickly as possible.

Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, commonly known as Roskosmos, significantly made the pledge to the Russian military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ("Red Star") in an interview published Friday and reported by RIA Novosti.

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