The Russian Navigation Satellite System GLONASS will go with the use of the “Soviet” Time UTS (SU) to the World Coordinate Time (UTC). This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the presentation of the General Designer of the Sergey Karutina system.
clarifies that the rejection of the national time scale will occur in 2027.
Karutin explained that the difference between GLONASS and other systems (GPS, Galileo and Beidou) is that the Russian system is adjusted depending on the recovered seconds. On foreign satellites, the time is not adjusted and accumulates an error that is automatically taken into account by the system. At the same time, the distinction between the testimony of the Russian and other systems is different on nanoseconds.
On October 8, the general director of the “information satellite systems” (ISS) Nikolay Tesotov called the “absolutely natural process” what the creation of new Satellites “GLONASS-K2” costs “Roskosmos” twice as expensive than the Space Aids “GLONASS-K” Previous generation. He assured that from 2026 all Space devices “GLONASS-K2” will be made from the Russian element base. “Even where the Russian industry does not have technological opportunities to make a concrete chip, replace its microbrust, but domestic production. Somewhere due to this, weight can be added compared to using a foreign component base,” said the head.
In July, the head of the branch of ground navigation and information systems and complexes of “Russian Space Systems” (RCS) Vitaly Sernov said that GLONASS and GPS “provide the error of the disposal in the limits of five meters and are suitable for navigation requirements of a large number of users.” However, “Developed by the RCC, a high-precision complex of the wide-range functional addition to global navigation satellite systems can significantly increase the efficiency of GLONASS navigation services” – up to 0.5 meters and even up to 0.1 meters.