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GLONASS

First launch year: 1982

The formerly Soviet, and now Russian, Glo bal'naya Na vigatsionnaya S putnikovaya S istema, (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System or GLONASS), is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides a civilian radionavigation-satellite service and is also used by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. GLONASS has full global coverage since 1995 and with 24 active satellites.