One of the three satellites GLONASS-M, which started on Monday, December 14, was put into operation on Monday, January 11

It was exactly four weeks after that start , captured by that spectacular video. And here the first of the three satellites, thrown into the near space, began work - on Monday, January 11, according to Roscosmos .

Prompt, isn't it? And the month did not have time to minute.

On the IAC KVNO TSNIIMash website there is a colorful table of the state of the satellite constellation , which makes it clear that now twenty-two GLONASS satellites are smoothly turning into space in their orbits, of which 16 are working, three are being commissioned, another two (soaring in December) are preparing to make money and one more is preparing for his last trip.

To cover the whole of Russia with uninterrupted reception of the navigation signal, eighteen satellites are enough.
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It is easy to count that until this joyful event there are no more than a couple of weeks or two , depending on the timing of the satellite maintenance.

In the Sverdlovsk region, a satellite tracking system for officials is already being deployed in advance so that official vehicles are not used for personal purposes. The system, they say, will begin its work in April.