The first Space apparatus “GLONASS-K2” of the new generation of the Russian global navigation satellite system (GLONASS) can be launched in the second quarter of 2022, TASS reports, referring to a source in the rocket and space industry.
“The launch of the Russian navigation satellite” GLONASS-K2 “is planned to be carried out in the middle of the second quarter of 2022,” said the interlocutor. The source added that at present the spacecraft is assembled and tests.
In October, the CEO of “Information Satellite Systems” Nikolai Tesotov said that the creation of new Satellites “GLONASS-K2” costs “Roskosmos” twice as expensive than the “GLONASS-K” spacecraft of the previous generation, and called it an absolutely natural process .
In November 2020, RIA Novosti, referring to the materials of Roskosmos, reported that the new GLONASS-K2 satellites were four times more expensive than their predecessors.