{"id":15482,"date":"2016-05-31T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T11:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russias-navigation-network-receives-new-satellite\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T19:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T11:23:26","slug":"russias-navigation-network-receives-new-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russias-navigation-network-receives-new-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s navigation network receives new satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ccLFT0bQX0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Glonass navigation satellite blasted off Sunday aboard a Soyuz rocket, reaching an orbit nearly 12,000 miles above Earth to join Russia\u2019s fleet of positioning, navigation and timing spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The new Glonass M satellite, designated No. 53 in the navigation system, launched at 0844 GMT (4:44 a.m. EDT) Sunday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A Soyuz-2.1b rocket boosted the 1,415-kilogram (3,119-pound) satellite and a Fregat upper stage to space in less than nine minutes, then the Fregat\u2019s main engine took over for a pair of maneuvers to guide the Glonass M craft into a circular orbit more than 19,100 kilometers (about 11,900 miles) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Fregat stage deployed the Glonass M satellite at 1216 GMT (8:16 a.m. EDT), according to ISS Reshetnev, the spacecraft\u2019s manufacturer based in&nbsp;Zheleznogorsk, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ground team took control over the satellite and the telemetry data from it confirmed the satellite\u2019s correct functioning,\u201d ISS Reshetnev said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian defense ministry renamed the satellite Kosmos 2516 after the launch, keeping with the naming convention for the country\u2019s military payloads.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass M satellite 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>Sunday\u2019s launch delivered the second new Glonass satellite to orbit this year, coming after a February mission that successfully placed another spacecraft in the constellation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15593\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15593\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/glonass-m.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's concept of a Glonass M navigation satellite. Credit: ISS Reshetnev\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/glonass-m.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/glonass-m-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/glonass-m-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/glonass-m-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/glonass-m-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist\u2019s concept of a Glonass M navigation satellite. Credit: ISS Reshetnev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the arrival of the latest Glonass satellite, the system currently consists of 29 spacecraft, according to a Russian government website tracking the navigation fleet\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, 23 of the satellites were operational. The rest are in maintenance, flight tests, or undergoing checks by their contractor.<\/p>\n<p>The Glonass system has satellites in three orbital planes, each with eight spacecraft. Russia says it needs 24 operational satellites to maintain worldwide service, a figure to be restored once the latest spacecraft is declared operational in late June or early July.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a source in Russia\u2019s space industry, Russia\u2019s Tass news agency reported a problem with the Soyuz rocket\u2019s third stage, which is powered by a four-nozzle RD-0124 engine, forced the Fregat engine to fire longer than planned to compensate for the error.<\/p>\n<p>Another launch of Glonass satellites is scheduled later this year, when a Proton rocket will loft three of the spacecraft in one flight.<\/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 Glonass navigation satellite blasted off Sunday aboard a Soyuz rocket, reaching an orbit nearly 12,000 miles above Earth to join Russia\u2019s fleet of positioning, navigation and timing spacecraft. The new Glonass M satellite, designated No. 53 in the navigation system, launched at 0844 GMT (4:44 a.m. EDT) Sunday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far [&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":[1763,2028,2030,3696,395,1893,1302,3080],"class_list":["post-15482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fregat","tag-glonass","tag-iss-reshetnev","tag-kosmos-2516","tag-navigation","tag-plesetsk-cosmodrome","tag-soyuz","tag-soyuz-2-1b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482"}],"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=15482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}