“Roskosmos” has created a department for the development of GLONASS – News Economy

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Guide “Roscosmos” has created a department of navigation space systems to coordinate all tasks related to the development and use of the GLONASS system. Writes about this on Monday, the newspaper “Izvestia”, citing the press service of the state corporation.

“In Russia function on the creation, implementation and use of GLONASS oddly scattered among the various organizations and agencies, – the newspaper notes. – Formation GLONASS department in “Roskosmos” – is an attempt to coordinate the activities of various departments. ” New structural division headed by Andrei Volkov.

It is noted that the creation of the department will provide a unified policy of financing the GLONASS deployment and use.

“There is a Federal Target Program (FTP)” GLONASS “, she has considerable budget, and the program is interdepartmental, – told “Izvestiya” member of the Russian cosmonautics Academy Tsiolkovsky Andrew, son of John -.. In any interdepartmental the federal program should be the management of China, the US, Europe -. all go along this path, so that the decision to establish a coordinating Department seems appropriate “

As reported in late March, the general director of JSC.” Information satellite systems named after academician MF Reshetnev “Nikolai Testoyedov, GLONASS orbital part will be commissioned in the Ministry of Defence after retrofitting:. Now orbit on 23 machine work purpose. By the end of this year, the GLONASS constellation can be extended by two or three new satellites “Glonass-M”.