Managers of Russia’s Glonass satellite navigation constellation will reach their goal of having a full set of 24 functioning satellites in orbit by the end of this year, fulfilling a decade-long ...

No audio available for this content. The recent broadcast of the first CDMA signal from the new GLONASS-K satellite culminates a long series of events that began in 1989. A key participant gives a ...

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off Saturday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A new satellite joined Russia’s Glonass navigation fleet Saturday with a ...

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

China and Russia have agreed to coordinate their satellite navigation systems as the two countries further solidify their partnership to rival the US-owned GPS. This comes as Russian President ...

Russia launched three Glonass-M navigation satellites March 2 as part of an ongoing effort to replenish its version of the United States’ constellation of GPS satellites. Several hours after liftoff, ...

With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off the US Global Positioning System (GPS) appears to be coming to fruition. But Moscow now says it ...

The year 2020 heralds the end of another 10-year stage of development of the Russian GLObal NAvigation Satellite System (GLONASS). Reconstruction of our orbital constellation, started in 2006, is ...

A Swedish firm has become the first known foreign company to use Russian positioning technology Glonass, in a sign that the system could become a credible challenge to established U.S. rival GPS.

Apple surprised the tech world this week by silently adding support for the Russian satellite navigation system known as GLONASS to the feature list of its new iPhone 4S smartphone. According to the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From a public relations standpoint, 2011 was not an easy year for Russia’s space industry. A $265m ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off ...