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

© Sputnik / Vladimir Baranov / Go to the mediabankA GLONASS [Global Navigation Satellite System] satellite mock-up on display at the exhibition "Space -- Elections -- Telecommunications"
A GLONASS [Global Navigation Satellite System] satellite mock-up on display at the exhibition Space -- Elections -- Telecommunications - Sputnik International, 1920, 14.01.2023
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MOSCOW (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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