Russian navigation satellites launched
Source: Reuters.
26 October 2007, - An unmanned rocket carrying three Russian GLONASS navigation satellites took off from the Russian cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Friday, news agencies reported. The Proton-K booster rocket blasted off at 11:35 a.m. Moscow time (3:35 a.m. EDT) and entered low-earth orbit eight minutes later, a Russian Space Forces spokesman said, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. Russias GLONASS system, which uses Soviet Cold War-era military technology, is designed to compete with the Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is being jointly developed with India.
