The number of Russian centers providing services based on data received via GLONASS satellites will reach 25, Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov said Tuesday, according to a RIA Novosti report. The space service centers are engaged in satellite monitoring of traffic safety, road planning and...More>>

Taoglas is launching the AA.16X Dominator series of antennas, which have a wider bandwidth to cover the GLONASS operating frequencies up to 1610 MHz, a good axial ratio, and a double resonance design for optimum reception at the centre frequencies. The company will showcase its line of antennas at...More>>

GLONASS 701K, the first GLONASS-K1 satellite, launched on February 26, 2011, has been reactivated on frequency channel -5. GLONASS 701K, still undergoing flight tests, had previously been active, transmitting legacy FDMA signals on channel -5 between April 8 and October 10, 2011, using almanac slot...More>>

u-blox, the Swiss positioning and wireless module and chip company, announces an all-in-one satellite positioning receiver module, the LEA-6N. The low-power, cost-effective module delivers fast, high-accuracy positioning, u-blox said. It is targeted at industrial telematics applications in Russia...More>>

Russia will launch two GLONASS satellites in 2012, Ria Novosti reports, citing the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.More>>

Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 billion in US dollars) on its GLONASS satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, according to a report in Ria Novosti. Government sources told Kommersant space agency Roscosmos and the economics ministry had agreed on a draft development program for...More>>

A story that appeared last week on a Russian news website, "Russia's GPS rival to survive on private investments" apparently consists of journalistic exaggeration. The story claimed that government funding would be cut off, but official sources say that's not true, that it is merely a question of...More>>

ISS Reshetnev has reported that the Russian Space Agency's Luch-5A relay satellite has passed the initial inspection carried out at its temporary location at about 58.5 degrees east longitude. On January 13, the company stated that the satellite is being maintained in standby mode with company...More>>

Proposals made at a December 27 Moscow meeting on the status and future of the satellite constellation included one to expand the GLONASS constellation to 30 satellites using six orbital planes. Five other options for upgrading the constellation were also aired.More>>

The following updates to GNSS constellations is provided by the CANSPACE Listserv. Included are updates on GPS, GLONASS, Beidou-2/Compass, and SDMA.More>>