{"id":12781,"date":"2019-12-11T23:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russia-adds-new-satellite-to-glonass-navigation-fleet\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:42:19","slug":"russia-adds-new-satellite-to-glonass-navigation-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russia-adds-new-satellite-to-glonass-navigation-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia adds new satellite to Glonass navigation fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KvWYUzqSC0g\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credit: Russian Ministry of Defense<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russia launched a fresh satellite for the Glonass network Wednesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, replenishing a fleet of positioning and timing stations used around the world for navigation services.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass M navigation satellite lifted off on top of a Soyuz-2.1b booster at 0854 GMT (3:54 a.m. EST) from Pad 3 at Site 43 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military-run spaceport around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s launch marked the first rocket flight to originate from Pad 3 at Site 43 since a Soyuz booster crashed moments after liftoff in October 2002, killing&nbsp;a Russian soldier and injuring eight others. The crash partially destroyed the Soyuz launch pad, and all Soyuz flights from Plesetsk since 2002 have blasted off from a neighboring facility.<\/p>\n<p>Russian teams repaired and upgraded the damaged launch pad before resuming launch operations there Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Launched under the supervision of Russian troops, the Soyuz took off Wednesday at 11:54 a.m. Moscow time powered by kerosene-fueled engines. The rocket shed its spent strap-on boosters and payload shroud, then shut down its core stage nearly five minutes into the mission.<\/p>\n<p>An RD-0124 engine on the Soyuz third stage ignited to propel the Glonass M spacecraft and a Fregat upper stage toward orbit, then released the Fregat to perform three engine firings. After the final Fregat burn, the rocket deployed the Glonass M spacecraft around three-and-a-half hours after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the Glonass satellite was deployed in the targeted orbit, and was operating normally after Wednesday\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass satellite was released&nbsp;in a near-circular orbit at an altitude of more than 11,900 miles (19,100 kilometers) and an inclination of 64.8 degrees, according to publicly-released U.S. military tracking data.<\/p>\n<p>ISS Reshetnev, a satellite manufacturer based in&nbsp;Zheleznogorsk, Russia, built the Glonass M spacecraft. The Russian Ministry of Defense was expected to name the Glonass satellite Kosmos 2544, keeping with the naming scheme for Russian military spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Designed for a seven-year lifetime, the 3,100-pound (1,400-kilogram) Glonass M satellite launched Wednesday, designated No. 59, will replace an aging navigation craft in the Glonass fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass satellites are spread in three orbital planes, or pathways, around Earth, each with eight spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Glonass fleet is similar to the U.S. Air Force\u2019s Global Positioning System, providing worldwide navigation and timing services.<\/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>Video credit: Russian Ministry of Defense Russia launched a fresh satellite for the Glonass network Wednesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, replenishing a fleet of positioning and timing stations used around the world for navigation services. The Glonass M navigation satellite lifted off on top of a Soyuz-2.1b booster at 0854 GMT (3:54 a.m. EST) from [&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":[1763,2028,2294,2030,2429,25,395,1893],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fregat","tag-glonass","tag-glonass-m","tag-iss-reshetnev","tag-kosmos-2544","tag-launch","tag-navigation","tag-plesetsk-cosmodrome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781"}],"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=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}