In Nicaragua, the station will be GLONASS – News

The next station to improve the performance of the Russian system GLONASS will be built in the summer of 2016 in Nicaragua, according to the portal Dni.ru

According to Russian Ambassador to this country in Central America Nicholas Budaeva, all necessary work currently underway. And thanks to the favorable geographical position country the station will be very useful for a stable and accurate operation of GLONASS.

Earlier, three stations will be launched in Brazil. “I believe that the opening of the next GLONASS stations in Brazil will give additional impetus to other joint projects in the field of space between our countries”, – said the representative of the state corporation “Roscosmos” in Brazil Gennady Saenko

It should be noted that the first of the network. ground stations that Russia deploys in the western hemisphere, began working GLONASS station located on the territory of the University of Brasilia (Brazil). She was commissioned in February 19, 2013. In the same in 2014 station quantum optical satellite system was launched. The third measurement station in the territory of Pernambuco Institute of Technology, located in Recife, was put into operation in February 2016. Prior to this, outside of Russia land measuring GLONASS stations were located only in Antarctica.

GLONASS ( Global Navigation Satellite System ) – board Sky / Russian satellite with YSTEM navigation , developed by the order The Ministry of Defence s USSR . One of the two operating today systems of the global satellite navigation (the Chinese satellite navigation system « Baidu on have” is currently functioning as the regional).

GLONASS is designed for quick navigation and time support an unlimited number of users of land, sea, air and space-based. Access to civil GLONASS signals to anywhere in the world on the basis of the Presidential decree provided to Russian and foreign consumers free of charge and without restrictions

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