09/01/2025
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InfiniteEyes wouldn’t be InfiniteEyes without attempting to get the ten thousand foot view, not to mention the two million foot view of low-earth orbit. It’s good to know what’s in your skies. Last night, July 6 at approximately 11:30 PM, a Russian GLONASS-M series satellite flew directly over Los Angeles. As Canadian fire-bombers assist Californian firefighting efforts against a wildfire that is still less than 10% contained at the point of writing, costing Californians an estimated dozens of billions of dollars, after only a few days of burn. All eyes are on LA, including the short predecessor to the next-generation GLONASS-K satellite classification used by the Russian military. So the story goes, in 1963 an R&D project on the first Soviet low-orbit “Cicada” system was developed. In 1967 the first navigation Soviet satellite “Cosmos-192” was launched. The navigation satellite provided continuous radio navigation signal transmission on 150 and 400 MHz during its active lifetime. It now broadcasts on restricted and unrestricted frequencies.
The “Cicada” space navigation system (and its “Cicada-M” modernization) was designed for navigation support of military users and had been in use since 1976. In 2008 “Cicada” and “Cicada-M” users started to use GLONASS system and the operation of those systems was allegedly halted.
“Nowadays there is an increasingly broad range of GNSS technologies applications”, according to displayed information at glonass-iac.ru. These include “defense, security, and economic prosperity”.
This system has also been internationally integrated and also provides an alternative to Global Positioning System (GPS) , being the second comparable navigational system in operation with global coverage.
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