Russia's GPS Network Is Put On Hold

RIA Novosti / Oleg Urusov

Russian Military's Support Of GLONASS On Ice After Corruption Scandal, Technical Failures - Report -- RT

The Russian Defense Ministry has so they say refused to adopt GLONASS, the country’s rival to GPS, due to its technical shortcomings. One of the system’s 24 satellites has malfunctioned, and more to the point, GLONASS is still in its taxing part. ­

The malfunctioning satellite will not be operational several stage soon as it has already exhausted its power in the same way as 96 months in service, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports. And due to a difference in orbit inclination, rejection existing reserve satellite can alternate it. 

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My Comment: After a decade of war the U.S. has clearly shown the value of GPS systems for precision bomb strikes. Not having this essential network is a significant loss for the Russian military.  
Update: A link to how China and other countries are trying to develop their own GPS system.

An Alternative To GPS?

A U.S. Army 2nd Lieutenant Uses An Army Issued Smartphone To Pull Up A Map For Afghan Villagers United States Army via Wikimedia

New Ground-Based Indoor Positioning Tech Is Accurate Down 
To Just A Few Inches -- Popular Science

Locata's knowledge goes wherever GPS can't, delivering a gesture solitary million epoch stronger than persons beamed from satellites.

 Indoor navigation is for the most part certainly the holy grail representing positioning usage makers justification promptly. Satellite-based location technologies like GPS handiwork wonderfully improbable under the candid sky, wherever signals bounced from satellites to receivers on the ground are unhindered by man-made structures or natural obstructions. Take to facilitate same knowledge into the subway or a fat shopping shopping precinct, and the gesture goes boring. But a modern ground-based positioning usage called Locata can soon return or augment satnav using telephone lines signals to facilitate are a million epoch stronger than GPS signals, indoors or improbable. 
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My Comment: The military will love this .... if it works.