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Russia's GLONASS Sat Nav system will be tops
Three GLONASS navigation satellites are due to be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Tags: global, GLONASS, navigation, positioning, Russian, satellites, system
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Glonass development
Russian-made global navigation system to compete gps
Tags: gps, navigation, Russia, russian-made, Today
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Proton rocket launch with GLONASS navigation satellites
Sept. 25, 2008 - Baikonur Cosmodrome.
A Russian Proton booster rocket blasts off from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. The rocket carried three GLONASS satellites into orbit. GLONASS is a Russian equivalent of the U.S.
Tags: baikonur, blasts, cosmodrome, glonass, launch, navigation, off, proton, proton-m, rocket, russian, satellite
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GLONASS launch
Glonass sats preocessing and launching (by TsENKI). September 2008.
Tags: baikonur, baykonur, glonass, gps, proton, rocket, roscosmos, roskosmos, russia, satellite, space, tsenki, uragan
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Russia's sat nav system falls short
Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov has told the country's Federal Space Agency that the Glonass (the Global Navigation Satellite System) must work better. Glonass was set up to challenge the dominance of the American GPS system but is still unable to cover the whole of Russia.
Tags: Glonass, GPS, Russia, satellite, space
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Putins pooch to be tracked by satellite
Prime Minister Putin's pet dog has been equipped with his own satellite tracking collar to promote the new GLONASS system, which Russia hopes will rival America's GPS.
Tags: collar, GLONASS, GPS, Putin, Russia, satellite, tracking
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GLONASS launched atop Proton-M from Baikonur
Sept. 25, 2008 - Baikonur Cosmodrome.
A Proton rocket hauled three new satellites (GLONASS-M) into orbit Thursday to replenish Russia's space-based navigation system, marking the heavy-lift booster's second flight in less than a week.
Tags: 2008, 25, baikonur, blast, cosmodrome, glonas, glonass-m, launched, off, orbit, proton, proton-m, rocket, russian, september
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Signing my name using a fast GPS engine
Using a very accurate and fast GPS, I write my signature in thin air and it appears on a laptop screen. The GPS is a Racelogic VBOX data logger, which uses GPS and the Russian Glonass system to achieve 2cm accuracy using RTK techniques. It updates 50 times a second.
Tags: accuracy, accurate, data, fast, GPS, grade, high, logger, precise, Racelogic, survey, update, VBOX
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Putin dogs nephew gets first sat nav collar
Russian engineers have designed a collar which will allow caring dog-lovers to track their pets using the GLONASS satellite navigation system. The first dog to put on the device is a four-year-old Labrador named Sheldon. He is the nephew of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Labrador Koni.
Tags: collar, dog, GLONASS, Koni, Labrador, nav, navigation, Putin, sat, satellite
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Sokkia GSR2700 ISX GPS Receiver Features
Palmettoequipment.com/sokkia_GSR2700ISX.html Sokkia GSR2700ISX is the latest advanced system for surveying professionals around the world. The new GSR2700 ISX features a fully integrated, triple-frequency, high-performance receiver with GPS plus Russian-based GLONASS satellite tracking capability. The receiver offers seventy-two universal channels for increased satellite coverage and improved performance on the job. The GSR2700 ISX also features numerous additional enhancements, including improved RTK performance, seamless Virtual Reference Station support, multiple Bluetooth® connection options and support for GPS L2C and L5 signals. The system is completely cable free and extremely easy to set up and operate in base and rover modes. The receiver is also the only one of its kind to...
Tags: base, bluetooth, demonstration, features, GLONASS, GPS, GSR2700ISX, land, receiver, rover, RTK, Sokkia, surveying, WAAS
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