12-04-2004, 04:04 AM
India is to become a full partner in the GLONASS navigational system, both for civilian and military purposes.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A milestone agreement on Indian participation in the proposed Global Navigational Satellite System (Glonass) as an <b>equal and sole partner of Russia </b>is to be signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin's three-day visit to India from Friday, IANS quoteda senior official as saying.
Russia had revived the project recently as an alternative to the US Global Positioning Satellite System and invited India to join it.
New Delhi's positive response comes in the wake of delay in finalizing India's participation in the Galileo satellite navigation system that European Union is developing." ...more at link
<b>Remember a few months back, the US stated they would take down any space based system that threatened them while they were engaged in combat. That included any satellite that was providing info to "the enemy" or navigational satellite, etc. So this is a most interesting development. </b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"India and Russia are putting together their space technology skills to build an ambitious navigational satellite project that would have both civilian and military applications, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Thursday.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A milestone agreement on Indian participation in the proposed Global Navigational Satellite System (Glonass) as an <b>equal and sole partner of Russia </b>is to be signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin's three-day visit to India from Friday, IANS quoteda senior official as saying.
Russia had revived the project recently as an alternative to the US Global Positioning Satellite System and invited India to join it.
New Delhi's positive response comes in the wake of delay in finalizing India's participation in the Galileo satellite navigation system that European Union is developing." ...more at link
<b>Remember a few months back, the US stated they would take down any space based system that threatened them while they were engaged in combat. That included any satellite that was providing info to "the enemy" or navigational satellite, etc. So this is a most interesting development. </b>
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