CHINA-RUSSIA COOPERATION IN GPS (GLONASS)
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Andrei Tyulin, General Manager of the Russian Space Systems Company disclosed on November 11, 2014, that several ground bases of Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) will be deployed in China. He said that company executives had visited sites near Chinese cities of Urumqi and Changchun with Chinese counterparts. Comment: Glonass presently operates 19 ground stations in Russia, three in Antarctic and one in Brazil. Two more stations are to be deployed in Kazakhstan and one more in Belarus. Russia plans to deploy 40 to 50 Glonass ground stations around the world, including the United States, South Africa and Brazil.)
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