{"id":14325,"date":"2017-09-22T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/replenishment-satellite-launched-into-russias-glonass-navigation-fleet\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T09:45:24","slug":"replenishment-satellite-launched-into-russias-glonass-navigation-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/replenishment-satellite-launched-into-russias-glonass-navigation-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Replenishment satellite launched into Russia\u2019s Glonass navigation fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrOeqvthXS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Soyuz rocket added a new satellite to Russia\u2019s Glonass navigation network Friday with an on-target delivery nearly 12,000 miles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh Glonass M spacecraft replaces a defunct satellite launched nearly 11 years ago, sustaining the Glonass system\u2019s near-global reach for the Russian military.<\/p>\n<p>A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off at 0002:32 GMT Friday (8:02:32 p.m. EDT Thursday) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, military spaceport&nbsp;in the Arkhangelsk region about 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff occurred at 3:02 a.m. local time at Plesetsk, and the Soyuz launcher headed east from the cosmodrome, dropping its four kerosene-fueled boosters, core stage and payload fairing in the first few minutes of the flight. The Soyuz rocket\u2019s third stage, powered by an RD-0124 engine, shut down around 9 minutes after liftoff and released a Fregat upper stage for two more burns to guide the Glonass M navigation satellite into its planned high-altitude perch.<\/p>\n<p>The Fregat stage deployed the Glonass M satellite,&nbsp;designated No. 52 in the Glonass system, around three-and-a-half hours into the mission. A statement issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense said the rocket released its payload into the targeted orbit, and ground controllers established contact with the Glonass-M satellite.<\/p>\n<p>All systems aboard the spacecraft were operating normally, the defense ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military tracking data indicated the satellite was orbiting at an altitude of approximately 11,900 miles (19,100 kilometers), moving around Earth on a track tilted 64.8 degrees to the equator, the same type of orbit used by the rest of the Glonass fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian defense ministry renamed the satellite Kosmos 2522 after the launch, keeping with the naming convention for the country\u2019s military payloads.<\/p>\n<p>Built by ISS Reshetnev, a satellite&nbsp;manufacturer based in&nbsp;Zheleznogorsk, Russia, the Glonass M satellite&nbsp;is beginning a seven-year service life broadcasting L-band navigation signals worldwide for the Russian military and civilian users.&nbsp;The Glonass program is Russia\u2019s analog to the U.S. military\u2019s Global Positioning System, providing precise position and time information to users equipped with receivers on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>With the arrival of the latest Glonass satellite, the system currently consists of 26 spacecraft, according to a Russian government website tracking the navigation fleet\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, 23 of the satellites were operational. The newest Glonass spacecraft launched Friday will go through around one month of in-orbit tests and commissioning before officially joining the network, restoring the fleet to a full complement of 24 operational satellites needed to maintain worldwide service.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass satellites are positioned in three orbital planes, each with eight spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass M craft launched Friday replaces an aging navigation satellite launched Dec. 25, 2006, which was removed from the constellation earlier this year after outliving its planned seven-year lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>ISS Reshetnev said in a press release last month that it has six more Glonass M navigation satellites on standby in its factory for call-up and launch at the request of the Russian defense ministry, as aging members of the fleet end their missions.<\/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 added a new satellite to Russia\u2019s Glonass navigation network Friday with an on-target delivery nearly 12,000 miles above Earth. The fresh Glonass M spacecraft replaces a defunct satellite launched nearly 11 years ago, sustaining the Glonass system\u2019s near-global reach for the Russian military. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off at 0002:32 GMT Friday [&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":[1763,2028,2030,25,395,1893,352,2153],"class_list":["post-14325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fregat","tag-glonass","tag-iss-reshetnev","tag-launch","tag-navigation","tag-plesetsk-cosmodrome","tag-russia","tag-russian-ministry-of-defense"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325"}],"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=14325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}