MOSCOW, February 7 – RIA Novosti Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that Russia continues work on development and testing of a new generation of spacecraft, which by 2020 will improve the navigation system <.. /> p> Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service told RIA Novosti that the satellite navigation “Glonass-M”, was launched on Sunday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the launch vehicle (LV) “Soyuz-2.1b”, delivered into orbit removal unit “Frigate” .
As Rogozin recalled in his microblog on Twitter, Roskosmos joined the grouping GLONASS of 24 employees and 4 satellites are in orbit reserve.
“Work continues on the creation and testing of a new generation of spacecraft that will allow for 2020 significantly improve the accuracy characteristics of the system “, – Rogozin wrote in microblogging
The launch vehicle of the middle class.” Soyuz-2.1b “with the navigation satellite” GLONASS-M “started at 03:21 MSK on Sunday with Russian cosmodrome Plesetsk in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Preparation and start-up have been nominally under the control of the Chief of the Air and Space Forces Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev.
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