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collection system measuring station differential correction and monitoring (SDCM) GLONASS system in the Antarctic

Russia increases the number of ground tracking stations of the GLONASS system. After entering the three stations in Brazil this summer it is planned to build new plant in Nicaragua.

The next station to improve the performance of the Russian GLONASS system, according to the corporate edition of “Siberian satellite” companies “Information Satellite Systems’ (ISS), will built in the summer of 2016 in Nicaragua:

“at the site of the Institute of Technology in the city of Recife in northeastern Brazil posted another ground station to improve the performance of the Global navigation satellite system. It was the third in a row in the country. Earlier, in 2013, in the territory of Brazil city University was established first on the continent differential correction and monitoring system of the station, and in 2014 in the same quantum-optical station GLONASS was opened.

Commenting on the opening of , a representative of the state corporation “Roscosmos” in Brazil Gennadiy Sayenko said:

“I think 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 “.

He also said that in April of this year planned commissioning of a similar plant at the Federal University of Santa Maria.

You will see a new ground station GLONASS and Central America – the summer of construction of the facility on the territory of Nicaragua will be completed. According to Russian Ambassador in Nicaragua, Nicholas, Vladimir, all the necessary work is currently underway. And thanks to the favorable location of the country geographically, this station will be very useful for a stable and accurate operation of GLONASS “.

The first of a network of ground stations, which Russia expands in the western hemisphere, the beginning of the work station GLONASS, located on the territory of the University of Brasilia (Brazil). It was commissioned in February 19, 2013 Prior to that, outside the Russian GLONASS ground-based measuring stations were placed only in Antarctica.