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NEW DELHI: India and Russia on Tuesday signed an agreement to share high-precision signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) for defence as well as civilian use. The agreement [...]

Excerpt from report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax The launch of a new-generation Glonass-K navigation satellite from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, originally scheduled for 28 December, has been postponed until 2011, [...]

The failed launch of the three Glonass-M satellites on 5 December occurred because of an incorrectly-written formula in the technical documentation for refuelling the DM-03 upper stage, the head of [...]

Text of report by Gazprom-owned Russian NTV on 15 December [Presenter] The main cause of the failed launch of three Glonass-M satellites [on 5 December] was a mistake in calculations [...]

Text of report by the website of government-owned Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on 13 December Sergey Ptichkin report: 'Overfilled: Cause of the Glonass Failure Announced' The first results of the [...]

Text of report by the website of heavyweight Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta on 9 December [Report by Oleg Vladykin: 'Roskosmos Expects Changes'] Personnel changes will not help solve the technical [...]

Text of report by Russian Gazeta.ru news website, often critical of the government, on 8 December [Interview with Sergey Savelyev, Federal Space Agency Deputy Head for International Activity, by Polina [...]

The Proton-M space rocket was not the reason why the launch of three Glonass navigation satellites on 5 December failed, Vladimir Nesterov, head of the Khrunichev state space research and [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Brussels, 8 December: The Russian Space Agency managers' response to Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev's criticism of the GLONASS programme causes bewilderment, [...]

Text of report by the website of liberal Russian newspaper Vremya Novostey on 6 December [Report by Nina Gugushvili: 'Sunk. Satellite accident has prevented definitive formation of GLONASS system'] An [...]

Excerpt from report in English by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 8 December: Proton-M carrier rockets could be cleared for launch in the next few days as it [...]

Text of report by the website of pro-government Russian newspaper Izvestiya on 6 December [Report by Dmitriy Litovkin and Petr Obraztsov: 'Satellites lost, system continuing to function'] There has been [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 7 December: The commission investigating the cause of the failed launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle considers an excess [...]

The failure of the launch of three Glonass-M satellites could cost billions of roubles, a source in the Russian rocket and space industry told Interfax-AVN news agency on 6 December. [...]

Excerpt from report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 6 December: Monitoring equipment has recorded that the Proton-M launch vehicle failed to gather necessary speed to take three [...]

The most likely reason for the failed launch of the Proton-M rocket carrier with three Glonass-M communications satellites on 5 December was a mistake in the programme support, Russian news [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 5 December: Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev has instructed Prosecutor-General Yuriy Chayka and the head of the presidential administration's Monitoring Directorate [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 5 December: The Khrunichev Space Centre (Moscow) has confirmed the loss of three Glonass-M satellites. 'The satellites were not [...]

Text of report by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti Moscow, 5 December: The DM-3 upper-stage rocket carrying three Glonass satellites has fallen into the Pacific Ocean 1,500 km north-west [...]

The three GLONASS-M navigation satellites that failed to enter the Earth's orbit on 5 December most probably burnt up in the atmosphere along with the DM-3 upper stage, Interfax-AVN military [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Baykonur [Kazakhstan], 5 December: Because of a contingency, [today's] attempt to put [three] GLONASS-M navigation satellites into orbit has most probably [...]

A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle has successfully delivered three Glonass-M navigation satellites to orbit, Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN reported on 5 December. The rocket lifted off from Baykonur Cosmodrome [...]

The first modernized Glonass-K2 satellite for the Glonass satellite navigation system will be launched in 2013, Sergey Revnivykh, deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Machine Building, said at [...]

Excerpt from report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 11 November: There has been no decision to postpone the launch of three Glonass-M navigation satellites from the Baykonur [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 10 November: The launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with three Glonass-M navigation satellites from the Baykonur cosmodrome has [...]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keltron has signed an MoU with a Moscow-based NIS-GLONASS (Navigation-Information Systems), a public sector company promoted by the Russian government, to market, manufacture and jointly promote products that draw [...]

The Russian satellite navigation system Glonass will have global coverage by the end of the year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Ivanov announced on 27 October at a news conference [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 27 October: The issue of removing restrictions on the accuracy of maps to a few metres will be resolved before [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 27 October: Russia will never jam the 'military' signal from the Glonass system which will be used by the Indian [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 27 October: The development of precision weapons in Russia is impossible without the development of the Glonass system, Russian [...]

Excerpt from report in English by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 12 October: The second of the three navigational satellites of the global positioning system Glonass that were launched [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 7 October: Russia's Space Troops will launch a new generation Glonass-K navigation satellite from Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk Region) at [...]

The first of the three Russian navigation satellites launched on 2 September to boost the country's Glonass navigation system has been put into operation, ITAR-TASS news agency reported on 5 [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Plesetsk (Arkhangelsk Region), 1 October: A new Glonass-K satellite will be launched from Russia for the first time by a [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 23 September: Flight tests of the Glonass-K new-generation spacecraft will last three years and from 2017 they will start [...]

Devices for Russia's Glonass satellite navigation system will start appearing widely on the commercial market by the end of 2012, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov has said. He was [...]

Excerpt from report in English by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 3 September: The federal navigation network operator, Navigation Information Systems (NIS), has signed its first contract with [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 2 September: Three Glonass-M spacecraft that were launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) on top of a Proton-M rocket on [...]

The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has approved an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation with Russia on the use and development of Russia's Glonass satellite navigation system, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported [...]

Excerpt from report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN Moscow, 5 August: The joint Russian-Indian enterprise to produce the Russian Glonass global satellite navigation system will begin work by [...]

Text of report in English by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN website Farnborough, 22 July: The first Glonass-K satellite for the Russian GLONASS global navigation system will be placed [...]

Text of report by privately-owned Russian television channel REN TV on 16 July GPS navigators are losing connection with Russian customers. The designers of the Glonass [Russian global satellite navigation] [...]

Excerpt from report in English by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 16 June: The Russian government has spent about 70 billion roubles on the GLONASS space navigation system over [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN website Moscow, 1 June: By the end of 2010, Russia will start testing a new-generation navigation spacecraft for the Glonass [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN website Moscow, 1 June: The world market for satellite navigation services is estimated to be worth 60-70bn dollars, the director-general [...]