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October 19th, 2011
GLONASS’s Immense Budget to Crack American GPS

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Russia is to spend $11 billion on its brand new GLONASS navigation system, hoping to make it as good as American rival GPS. The plan is to cover the whole planet with GLONASS, which requires more satellites to be launched. This year alone, seven of them are scheduled to reach the Earth’s orbit. The developers also hope to narrow the satellite’s precision from two meters to seventy-eighty centimeters. Read More