Faulty Software Determined Cause of GLONASS Failures
April 25, 2014
The two April failures in Russia’s GLONASS were caused by mathematical mistakes in software, according to Oleg Ostapenko, […]
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The two April failures in Russia’s GLONASS were caused by mathematical mistakes in software, according to Oleg Ostapenko, […]
The GLONASS constellation has suffered a major problem for the second time this month. On Monday, April 14, […]
Reports in the semi-official Russian news daily Izvestia indicate that finger-pointing has gotten underway regarding the April 1 […]
The fundamentals of Russian government policy in satellite navigation are defined in Presidential Decree #638 of May 17, 2007, and specify that GLONASS services are provided globally and free of any user fees, and GLONASS is used as a basis of the National Positioning, Navigation and Timing System. To efficiently implement the government policy in satellite navigation, in March 2012 the Government approved the dedicated Federal Program focused on GLONASS sustainment, development, and expansion of applications.
Luch-5B, the second of a set of three geostationary satellites being launched to reactivate Roscosmos’s Luch Multifunctional Space Relay System, has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It arrived together with the Yamal-300K satellite in a single shipping container aboard an Antanov An-124-100 Ruslan flight from Krasnoyarsk.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos launched a venerable Proton rocket carrying three GLONASS-M satellites into orbit on December 14. […]
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