The system will have its necessary minimum 18 satellites by the deadline to cater for entire Russia and 95 to 97 per cent of the world. Two thirds of dual-purpose system capacity will be civil-oriented, pointed out Mr. Perminov.
Novosti interviewed him while on visit to Zheleznogorsk, limited-admittance township in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory. The space boss came there for a first-hand view of the local research-cum-production amalgamation for applied mechanics, named after Academician Mikhail Reshetnev, its founding father.
Reshetnev Co. designers are standing at the GLONASS cradle. The company has been set a formidable task-to make and orbit three or more navigation satellites of the latest generation every year. This is one of the world's best R&D and manufacturing centres in the industry, and it will surely cope to a T, says Anatoli Perminov.
