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  1. Glonass by dimss · · Score: 1 · on Galileo Sends Its First Signals

    There is another navigation system called Glonass. It is controlled by Russia. In fact, many professional GPS receivers receive both GPS and Glonass signals.

    http://www.glonass-center.ru/frame_e.html

  2. Re:Russian System: Not too accurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Europe Building Their Own GPS

    However, according to:

    http://www.glonass-center.ru/int.html

    This system is (at best) 5700 times less accurate than the proposed Europen system...

  3. Russian System by tomherbst · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Europe Building Their Own GPS

    The US vs Europe debate fails to notice that there exists an
    operational alternative to the US GPS system. Russia has had a
    working system for years. There are shipping chipsets that do both
    GPS and GLONASS.

    http://www.glonass-center.ru/

    Europe should just slip the Russians a few Euro to keep it running
    and get a contractual agreement on levels of service.

  4. Re:GLONASS may be total BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Doubts About Future GPS Reliability

    I wouldn't count on GLONASS:

                                        GLONASS Constellation Status
                                                ( October 14, 2005)

    GLONASS Cosmos Plane/ Frequ. Launch Intro Status Outage
    number number slot chann. date date date
    796 2413 1/01 02 26.12.2004 06.02.2005 operating
    794 2402 1/02 01 10.12.2003 02.02.2004 operating
    789 2381 1/03 12 01.12.2001 04.01.2002 operating
    795 2403 1/04 06 10.12.2003 30.01.2004 operating
    711 2382 1/05 02 01.12.2001 15.04.2003 operating
    701 2404 1/06 01 10.12.2003 09.12.2004 operating
    712 2411 1/07 04 26.12.2004 06.10.2005 operating
    797 2412 1/08 06 26.12.2004 06.02.2005 operating
    787 2375 3/17 05 13.10.2000 04.11.2000 operating
    783 2374 3/18 10 13.10.2000 05.01.2001 unusable 03.10.2005
    792 2395 3/21 05 25.12.2002 31.01.2003 operating
    791 2394 3/22 10 25.12.2002 10.02.2003 unusable 11.10.2005
    793 2396 3/23 11 25.12.2002 31.01.2003 unusable 09.10.2005
    788 2376 3/24 03 13.10.2000 21.11.2000 unusable 03.10.2005

    Note: All the dates (DD.MM.YY) are given at Moscow Time (UTC+0300)

    Note that the formatting is a little off, but you can get the idea. After launching around 100 GLONASS SVs, there are 10 operational today, with a max of 14 if they all stay lit at once for a while.

    Additionally, the history of the project is interesting:

    http://www.glonass-center.ru/hist_e.html

    I wonder how much the EU has learned from the US and the USSR/Russia so they can create such a perfect system as Galileo?

  5. GLONASS by incal · · Score: 1 · on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown

    All of you forget about quite nicely working Russian GPS system. http://www.glonass-center.ru/ With all these shiny new Topol M ballistic missiles, I suppose GW Bush would think twice before attacking russian satelites. I've used a GLONASS receiver. Quite cheap russian stuff, made by Electronica. Quite precise, quite good.

  6. Re:competitive?? by aCC · · Score: 1 · on EU and US Agree on Galileo

    Well, it seems you don't know much about the market then. Otherwise you would know that there are two players in it.

    GPS (first launch in 1978) and GLONASS (first launch in 1982). Both still operational (although GPS is the better system now due to lack of money for GLONASS)

    Here is a comparison

  7. Re:GLONASS Dead? by Multics · · Score: 2, Informative · on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System
    http://www.glonass-center.ru/nagu.txt is the current status (in English).

    There is enough Glonass still functioning that given a little luck one can still get a time sync and position about 50% of the time.

    -- Multics

    And yes... google is my friend.