Archive for December 26th, 2007

0wned! Funny Pictures of People and Animals Getting Owned. 0

Posted December 26, 2007

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Russia launches Final Satellites for its own GPS 0

Posted December 26, 2007

gps MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America’s GPS.

The military-run GLONASS mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected to cover the globe by the end of 2009, once all its 24 navigational satellites are operating.

A space rocket blasted off from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome on the steppes of neighboring ex-Soviet Kazakhstan, from which Russia rents the facility.

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