Three Russian satellites have crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch at the weekend, in a setback to a Kremlin project designed as a rival to the widely-used US GPS navigation technology.
Russian news agencies say the satellites veered off course and crashed near Hawaii after blasting off from Russia's Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan on Sunday. The satellites were the last of a batch of 24 at the heart of Russia's GLONASS (Global Navigation System), its answer to the US Global Positioning System (GPS). http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/06/3085211.htm _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
