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The Russian space agency Roskosmos will submit technical proposals to the Russian Ministry of Transport and the aviation authority Rosaviatsia to replace GPS systems with Glonass devices that can receive signals from the Chinese navigation system, Roskosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.(22) , the Russian news agency TASS.
“Today we will submit to the Ministry of Transport and Rosaviatsia our technical proposals to replace GPS with Glonass devices, which can also receive the navigation signal of China’s Beidou orbital navigation system, with whose administration we have been successfully cooperating for eight years,” the Roscosmos chief said on his Telegram channel.
Roskosmos had previously warned that the USdeveloped GPS system could be shut down as Russian airlines continue to rent and buy foreign planes and ignore the requirement to install Glonass equipment, Rogozin said.
“Now they have to find a solution quickly. This solution is unique: installing Glonass stations at all airports to provide the highprecision navigation signal and installing Glonass receivers on all operational aircraft in our country,” said the head of Roscosmos.
Russian daily Izvestia previously reported, citing a letter from Rosaviatsia Deputy Director Dmitry Yadrov to State Air Traffic Management Corporation CEO Igor Moiseyenko and heads of the agency’s interregional branches, that the aviation watchdog recommended airlines prepare for flights without using the US Global Positioning System (GPS).
He pointed to the possibility of the GPS signal being interrupted, blocked or even “false attacks” being carried out during flights over the Kaliningrad region, the Black Sea, near Finland and the eastern Mediterranean.
The head of Roscosmos warned in March that the United States is considering disconnecting Russia from the GPS system. He stressed that there is nothing to worry about, since Russia operates the domestic Glonass satellite navigation system, which was developed during the Cold War era.