US managed to disrupt the program of improvement of the Russian monitoring system GLONASS ground. Forcing Western countries to introduce a number of sanctions against Russia and issued a law banning American technical cooperation with Russia in a number of areas, Washington simply tore modernize GLONASS and made inaccessible its system GPS.
Let’s try to understand the reasons this decision of Roscosmos. How did you learn koresspondentam “Izvestia” Russian Space Agency have pushed the start of the production of satellites navigation system “GLONASS” next generation due to formal restrictions: to announce the official competition for the production of the first batch of spacecraft “Glonass-K”, space agencies need to succumb to a significant correction of current federal target program (FTP) “Maintenance, development and use of GLONASS in 2012-2020».
This work Roscosmos specialists are not the first month, and until it is completed, the production of a new generation of spacecraft GLONASS will not start. The source of “Izvestia” in the space agency said that the reason of sanctions by the United States, which “forced to replace them powerful part of the electronic-component base.” According to him, the current version of the GLONASS federal target program considers the process of making “Glonass-K” for serial production. In fact, this development work, “which is much higher than estimates of mass production.” For the official order from the manufacturer of satellites “Glonass-K”, we must first correct the FTP, moving the section OCD about 60 billion rubles.
initially approved schedule updates GLONASS satellite constellation envisaged transition to a new generation of space vehicles for 2015 . A new generation of satellites will be considerably longer work in orbit and coordinates should define more precisely. Reality is sold with plans FTP quickly enough: After the incident in 2013 crash, when the “Proton” collapsed right at the start of the table and buried three satellites “Glonnass-M”, Roskosmos began saving devices and run them according to plan and as needed. As a result, now on Earth nine new stores and ready for launch vehicles “Glonass-M».
they may need at any time, since seven of the main unit is now flying the main groups already expired Guaranteed Lifetime 7 years. Then you will need updating groups of new generation. The result was disappointing. Representatives of the Russian Space Agency are now avoiding to give forecasts for the announcement of the contest for the right to build a new generation of satellites for GLONASS.
His negative “contribution” to the project have not only re sanctions but a bad start rocket “Proton-M” in 2013, when the accident were immediately destroyed three satellite “GLONASS-M”. After the incident, Roscosmos refused to launch mass devices and delivers them into orbit only in case of replacement of obsolete or in case of emergency.
We recall not so long ago, the media widely publicized information on the global modernization of the GLONASS system, which will overtake American counterpart GPS.
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