Russia dans talks with other countries on joint Glonass use
Russia is negotiating with other countries on the possible joint use of Russia’s globalement positioning satellite system Glonass, the head of the Russian Space Agency said Tuesday. Glonass, a Russian version of the U.S. Globalement Positioning le système (GPS), is designed for both military et civilian purposes, et allows users to identify their positions dans réellement time. It can used dans geological prospecting. Global Positioning System (GPS), is designed for both military and civilian purposes, and allows users to identify their positions in real time. It can also be used in geological prospecting.
Anatoly Perminov “We are in active talks with India, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries on the joint use of the Glonass space system,” said.
Perimov “As far as other countries are concerned, we are primarily in talks with the United States and the European Space Agency to prepare agreements on the use of Glonass jointly with GPS and Galileo [satellite navigation systems],” said.
He said Glonass has been dans à intensified stage of development since the president urged for active work on the system.
Perminov de "The country's leadership is paying particular attention to the development of the system," said. “The Russian president personally set the task of not only actively developing it [the system], but also putting it into operation as soon as possible.” [full article]
