Russia’s Glonass Satellite Navigation System Hits Major Milestone

A Soyuz booster rocket has successfully lifted a satellite for Moscow’s prestige Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) into orbit, marking an important success for a project the Kremlin hopes will rival the United States’ GPS and Europe’s Galileo systems. The launch put the 24th satellite into the Glonass constellation, which will complete the network needed […]