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GLONASS(GLObal NAvigation Satellite System-GLObalnaya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema) A satellite-based radio navigation system run by the Russian Ministry of Defense. It uses 21 MEO satellites and three spares. Similar to the global positioning system (GPS) in the U.S., GLONASS enables 3D positioning anywhere on earth within 100-150 meters for the public and 10-20 meters for the military. The first satellite was launched in 1982, and the system became operational in 1993, although the full complement of satellites was not completed until 1995. See GPS, Galileo and GNSS. GLONASS [′glō‚nas] (navigation) A worldwide Russian navigation system designed to use 24 satellites in three uniformly spaced orbital planes to provide three-dimensional position and velocity data to equipped users on or above the earth's surface. Acronym for global orbiting navigation satellite system. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The magazine is described as a business and technology magazine covering the policies, programs, engineering and "most challenging" applications of GPS, Galileo and GLONASS and related technologies. The research work of the Institute, during this period, was largely taken up with the solution of the problem for processing the navigational-and-geodetic information, which was obtained from the space-based GLONASS system. Precision navigation and timing from space is now so integral to societal functions that GPS has aspiring imitators in the form of the partially-deployed Russian GLONASS system and the proposed European Galileo System. |
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