{"id":81939,"date":"2012-12-04T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T11:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russia-postpones-glonass-satellite-launch\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T19:23:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T11:23:54","slug":"russia-postpones-glonass-satellite-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russia-postpones-glonass-satellite-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Postpones Glonass Satellite Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Glonass Soyuz, Satellite Launch, Russia<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 12\/04\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"151\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Russian_Navigation_Spacecraft_Glonass_K1_at_CeBIT.jpeg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Model of Russia\u2019s Next-Generation Glonass-K Satellite displayed on CeBit 2011.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Tanalahy\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>After embezzlement scandals, Russia delayed the launch of its second Glonass-K satellite until 2013. However, government officials reported that the postponement was due to technical defects in the Fregat booster built by the Lavochkin space company, not by the scandal. <\/p>\n<p>A Soyuz-2.1b rocket will still launch the satellite from the Plesetsk space center but the new launch date has not been released. Officials said the date will be decided during a state commission meeting after the defects have been corrected. <\/p>\n<p>Once launched, the second Glonass-K will be performing in-orbit tests until it becomes operational in 2015. There are 31 Glonass satellites currently in orbit to provide global coverage. This network of satellites is expected to cost Russia approximately $12 billion on maintenance and further developments between 2012 and 2020. Russia is also planning to build eight Proto-M and 11 Soyuz-2.1b rockets to carry the future Glonass satellites. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, fraud allegations submerged around the Glonass project, which caused its chief designer\u2019s layoff. The claims indicate that since 2010, officials embezzled approximately $200 million of the program\u2019s funds.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Glonass Soyuz, Satellite Launch, Russia Publication Date: 12\/04\/2012 Model of Russia\u2019s Next-Generation Glonass-K Satellite displayed on CeBit 2011. Image credit: Tanalahy After embezzlement scandals, Russia delayed the launch of its second Glonass-K satellite until 2013. However, government officials reported that the postponement was due to technical defects in the Fregat booster built by the [&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-81939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81939"}],"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=81939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}