[TSgt]

Glonass was planned as a rival to the US-based GPS satellite navigation system familiar to motorists all over the world. It has been developed in close conjunction with the military to ensure that Russia has its own means of collating and transmitting potentially sensitive information without using a foreign system. But almost 20 years after the plans were first unveiled the network is still some way short of providing full global coverage. In total a constellation of 24 satellites is needed and yesterday’s set was intended to bring the numbers up to full strength.

GPSki FAIL

[massgopguy]

In 1991 I saw an exhibition at the Boston Museum Of Science called “Soviet Space”. I saw more advanced technology in my grandfather’s basement in the form of his pluming and furnace. The first page of the old Cosmonaut handbook should say “thank you for dying for your country”. There is no second page.