Russia launches three more Glonass satellites, but GPS still a backup

Russia orbited three Uragan-type satellites for the Russian national Glonass global positioning system constellation last week in a Proton launch delayed more than two weeks by a railroad collision while the satellites were being transported. The collision damaged the satellites, but they were...

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