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Russia, China develop navigation system for SCO, BRICS ( Source- Russia & India Report / Sputnik)

Chinese Beidou system ( Image credits- Internet source) Source- Russia & India Report / Sputnik Russian and Chinese experts have developed a draft project to create a global international navigation system based on China’s BeiDou and Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation for the member states of BRICS group and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Russian Space Systems company said in a statement on Tuesday. On Monday, Russia's GLONASS Union said Russia and China would also finalize a deal this month to establish two joint ventures to develop, manufacture and sell new satellite navigation devices that would receive signals from three major navigation systems, BeiDou, GLONASS and US Global Positioning System (GPS). "The project was approved at the second meeting of the Chinese-Russian committee for important projects in the sphere of strategic cooperation on the satellite navigation," the statement reads. The Chinese-Russian project is based o

Russia to Build 50 GLONASS Stations in 36 Countries ( Copy Right @ Ria Novosti)

GLONASS (Image courtesy- Wikimedia Commons/ Patrick.G/ Pavel Kolothilov) MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia plans to build 50 stations of Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) in several dozen countries across the world, Russian presidential administration chief told the Navitech 2014 forum for navigation system Wednesday. “We will continue promoting GLONASS technologies on global markets. We will increase competitiveness of Russian navigation services. To this aim, we will create a ground measuring segment abroad,” Sergei Ivanov said. “Ideally, in prospect, we would like to have 50 data-collection stations in 36 countries. This guarantees more stable and precise work of GLONASS,” Ivanov said. Russia also plans to create a single navigation space with Kazakhstan and Belarus, Ivanov said. The Global Navigation Satellite System, which began operating in 1993, is a Russian equivalent of the US Global Positioning System (GPS). The GLONASS network provides real-tim