Russia’s Glonass GPS-alike satellite navigation system is being claimed by Russia’s Roscosmos space agency as having sovereignty in the area of navigation. The report came from the Interfax press agency.

“It’s important that we have absolute sovereignty in a number of areas. Navigation – the Glonass system. We, the United States and China, which have fully deployed navigation constellations,” Roscosmos CEO, Dmitry Bakanov, said at the 20 Years of Achievements: Technology, Science and People session on June 3rd.

Bakanov added: “The next area is orbital stations and manned cosmonautics. Sooner or later we will be moving closer to deep space regardless, and that means developing medical technologies, training the body, and preparing infrastructure where the body can exist. And without manned cosmonautics, we would have lost this momentum,” he said.

Bakanov also said that return [rocket] stage technology has made it possible to monopolize the launch services market for 10-12 years.

“Although it would seem that until 2012, the Russian Federation had a monopoly on the market, with Proton and Soyuz rockets holding 70 per cent – 80 per cent of the launch services market,” Bakanov noted. “Here, we need to respond: the Soyuz-5 has good performance for launching approximately 18 tonnes into low orbit, which also allows us to compete economically in this area.”

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