Glonass Satellite blasts off atop Soyuz Rocket to replenish Russian Navigation Constellation

Russia’s Soyuz rocket thundered into the night skies over the country’s prime military launch site Saturday night, lifting off with a Glonass-M navigation satellite to replenish the Glonass satellite constellation in orbit 19,000 Kilometers above Earth.

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Final GPS IIF Satellite to ride into Orbit in Year-Opening Atlas V Launch

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for a Friday morning liftoff with the GPS IIF12 satellite to complete the deployment of a dozen of GPS Block IIF satellites in the continued replenishment and modernization of the GPS satellite constellation that currently hosts 30 active spacecraft.

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