{"id":11415,"date":"2022-07-10T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russian-soyuz-rocket-hauls-glonass-navigation-satellite-to-space\/"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T11:33:10","slug":"russian-soyuz-rocket-hauls-glonass-navigation-satellite-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russian-soyuz-rocket-hauls-glonass-navigation-satellite-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Soyuz rocket hauls Glonass navigation satellite to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57808\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57808\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220710glonass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220710glonass.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220710glonass-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220710glonass-678x438.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220710glonass-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Soyuz rocket lifts off July 7 with a Glonass navigation satellites. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A fresh satellite joined Russia\u2019s Glonass navigation network with the launch of a Soyuz rocket Thursday from a military spaceport about 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The new Glonass satellite lifted off Thursday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 5:18 a.m. EDT (0918 GMT; 12:18 p.m. Moscow time), according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>A Soyuz-2.1b rocket and a Fregat upper stage delivered the Glonass satellite to its targeted circular orbit more than 11,900 miles (19,100 kilometers) above Earth, with an inclination of 64.8 degrees to the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The ascent into that orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome took about three-and-a-half hours. The Soyuz rocket flew southeast from Plesetsk, then jettisoned four kerosene-fueled first stage boosters around two minutes into the mission. The launcher next released its nose cone, then shut down its core stage engine.<\/p>\n<p>The core stage fell away from the Soyuz third stage, which fired an RD-0124 engine until about nine minutes after launch. The third stage then deployed a Fregat upper stage for a series of burns to place the Glonass satellite into its targeted orbit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1PITIJXB3sY\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s defense ministry said the satellite was functioning normally after separating from the Fregat upper stage. Defense officials&nbsp;named the new Glonass satellite Kosmos 2557, keeping with the naming scheme for Russian military spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass navigation fleet is Russian military\u2019s version of the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Global Positioning System.&nbsp;Europe\u2019s Galileo and China\u2019s Beidou satellite navigation systems are also designed for global coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military uses the Glonass positioning signals for naval and aircraft navigation and missile targeting. Glonass signals are also used by civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the Glonass network\u2019s usage in Russia\u2019s military invasion of Ukraine is not clear \u2014 some users can simultaneously incorporate data from the Glonass, GPS, and Galileo networks for an improved position estimate \u2014 but the Ukrainian government requested assistance earlier this year from volunteer hackers to disable or degrade Russian tech infrastructure. One of the targets of Ukraine\u2019s \u201cIT Army\u201d was the Glonass system.<\/p>\n<p>The new satellite launched Thursday is the fourth spacecraft in&nbsp;Russia\u2019s Glonass K series of navigation satellites, a new generation designed&nbsp;to operate longer and transmit more navigation signals than earlier spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass K satellites weigh around 2,060 pounds, or 935 kilograms, somewhat less than the earlier generation Glonass M satellites.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48186\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48186\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/glonass-k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/glonass-k.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/glonass-k-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/glonass-k-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/glonass-k-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist\u2019s illustration of a Glonass K satellite. Credit: ISS Reshetnev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Glonass K satellites are designed to operate for 10 years \u2014 an improvement from the seven-year design life of previous satellites \u2014 and features five navigation channels, including a new civilian L-band signal. The new craft are lighter, generate more electrical power, and are based on an unpressurized Express 1000K bus built by ISS Reshetnev&nbsp;in&nbsp;Zheleznogorsk, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass K spacecraft will also support the international Cospas-Sarsat search and rescue network, Russian officials said. The Glonass K satellite design also uses&nbsp;more Russian-built equipment than previous Glonass spacecraft, a change triggered by previous international sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>With the launch Thursday, the Glonass fleet consists of 26 active satellites, including 22 operational spacecraft and four more undergoing commissioning or in \u201cmaintenance,\u201d according to the Russian government\u2019s official Glonass network status website.<\/p>\n<p>The constellation requires 24 satellites spread among three orbital planes to provide global navigation coverage.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Soyuz rocket lifts off July 7 with a Glonass navigation satellites. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A fresh satellite joined Russia\u2019s Glonass navigation network with the launch of a Soyuz rocket Thursday from a military spaceport about 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The new Glonass satellite lifted off Thursday from the Plesetsk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}