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    • MOSCOW (AFP) Dec 26, 2004
     Russia successfully launched three navigational satellites Sunday from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency announced according to Interfax news agency.

    Two GLONASS satellites and a new-generation GLONASS-M were sent into orbit aboard a Proton-K rocket, the agency said.

    The satellites have military and civil uses and will extend the reach and life of the GLONASS system, which gives navigational information ships, aircraft, spacecraft and ground vehicles all over the world.

    There are 24 orbiters in the GLONASS network.




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