New Year's gift to motorists: 1000 lucky winners will receive GLONASS receivers

Market uslug03-12-2007 New Year's gift to motorists: 1000 lucky winners will receive GLONASS receivers a secret national project GLONASS is forced pace than ever before. Already the New Year senior curators of the project promise to please the Russian drivers first receiver domestic navigation system. Help GLONASS - the Soviet draft of the global navigation satellite systems for military and civilian purposes, an alternative to the American GPS. GLONASS receivers monitor their own position on the ground by signals from space satellites. This was reported today the head of Russian Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov, during a visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin NPO. Lavochkin. However, at the counters to throw just one thousand automotive receivers from an experimental batch, and their price is still unknown. According Bigness.ru source in Ministry of Transport, who requested anonymity, the receiver in the base version will cost between five thousand. However, most likely, in retail they will be 1,5-2 times more expensively. It is not excluded that in case of successful operation of an experimental batch, navigation receivers on the back of GSM-communication will be obliged to equip all cars manufactured in Russia - about the plans have repeatedly stated by the representatives of the Ministry.