ST PETERSBURG, April 3 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time marks its 50th jubilee on Tuesday. It was the Institute's scientists that devised the professional satellite-aided navigation equipment GLONASS that has been adapted to its foreign analogues, GPS/GALILEO.
A scientific conference and a ceremonial session of the Learned Council will be held at the Institute on the occasion of the jubilee.
A production line with a capacity of 10,000 instrumentation packages a year has been brought into being on the basis of the Institute, which is the Rosprom (Federal Industrial Agency) leading research center in the field of radionavigation, systems of precision time and synchronisation, an official in the jubilee events organizing committee has told Itar-Tass.
The committee official specified that a collective of scientists and specialists currently engage in "creating a single time coordinate and navigation support system".
Researchers at the Institute have also worked out more than 40 types of onboard synchronizing devices, atomic standards of frequency, and measuring instrumentation for space systems under national programmes for the development of space-based means for the observation of the Earth in the interests of defence and the national economy.
Source: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11396883&PageNum=0
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