MOSCOW, July 11 – RIA Novosti. The number of satellites in the constellation of the Russian space navigation system GLONASS will not decrease with the introduction of more advanced devices, he said on Saturday the Director General of the test space center (GIKTS) name Titova-General Major Andrey Ilyin.
As part of the group space navigation system GLONASS is currently 28 spacecraft. Of these, 24 satellites are used for their intended purpose, one is located in the orbital reserve, a general designer explore, and two device “Glonass-K” undergoing flight tests.
“No, they will remain the same 24, but the accuracy of the field will be improved due to the fact that we put on the spacecraft still new and new equipment, and, consequently, improved ground control,” – said Ilyin, in response to the relevant question on the air of “Echo of Moscow”.
Director GIKTS noted that GLONASS exceeds American counterpart, the navigation system GPS, a number of parameters, which were laid in it initially.
“It is superior to GPS in precision characteristics in the northern latitudes. If the American system was originally designed for the southern latitudes, our – for northern. This is a smaller number of units involved in the system: Americans in the 30 GPS devices provide the same features that the device 24 GLONASS ” – said Ilyin.
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