Russia to Launch Three Glonass Satellites in 2023, Roscosmos Subsidiary Says

 / Go to the mediabankA GLONASS [Global Navigation Satellite System] satellite mock-up on display at the exhibition “Space — Elections — Telecommunications” / Go to the mediabankMOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia plans to add two Glonass-K satellites and one Glonass-K2 to the constellation this year, Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, informed. The exact dates of the launches have not been announced yet. According to Glavkosmos, Russia also plans to launch one lightweight Angara-1.2 rocket and one heavy-lift Angara-A5 rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2023. There are currently 25 satellites in the Russian Glonass constellation, 24 of them are operational, one is in commissioning phase. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Glonass-K satellite was successfully launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in October.

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