Russia Launches Three New GLONASS Satellites
Posted by Abhishek Vij on November 5, 2007
Russia’s GLONASS system just got a boost with the launch of three new satellites aboard a Proton-K booster rocket, last Friday. The satellites successfully reached low-earth orbit eight minutes after launch.
GLONASS, for the unfamiliar, is Russia’s equivalent of the Global Positioning System (GPS) commonly used in the U.S. In English the words that make up the acronym roughly are translated to “Global Navigation Satellite System.”
