... experiments aboard the International Space Station, Glavkosmos and China are also currently aiming to make their GLONASS and BeiDou navigation satellite systems mutually compatible and have plans to install adjusting ground-based stations...
Space 1.0: how it all began In the 1950s and 1960s, the model for the development of global space exploration was the ‘specialisation’ model. In the Soviet space programme, the most obvious example of specialisation was the General Designers’ Board,...
... began to suffer from increasing instances of quality control lapses, such as the loss of two Mars probes, a constellation of GLONASS satellites and two Progress freighters. Even a Soyuz malfunctioned, the occupants (Alexei Ovchinin and Nick Hague...
... and Earth remote sensing (ERS) operator; Sovzond and Skaneks, providing ground-based ERS services; NIS GLONASS, a navigational services and equipment provider; plus a few companies offering launch services, such as Kosmotras. In just over...
... industry. In July 2013, there was an accident involving the heptylic launch rocket, Proton-M, at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Three GLONASS system satellites were lost, with damages amounting to about RUB 5 billion. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The...
... the generic name of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Russia then developed its own GNSS called GLONASS. Since then China has developed its own system (BDS) and the European Union (EU) is developing its...