Russia to deploy Glonass measurement station in Venezuela

MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - Moscow and Caracas have signed a contract to deploy a Glonass measurement station in Venezuela, an Interfax correspondent has reported from the signing ceremony.

The document was signed on the sidelines of a meeting of the Russian-Venezuelan Intergovernmental Commission.

Yury Roi, general director of Russia's Precision Instrument Systems research and production corporation, and Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities head Adolfo Jose Godoy Pernia are the signatories.

Measurement stations provide precision navigation for users of the Precise Point Positioning technology. They continuously monitor open signals from spacecraft of the Glonass, GPS, Galileo and Beidou global navigation satellite systems to measure current navigation parameters, receive navigation messages from satellites and transmit measurement results and navigation data to the processing center in real time.

It was reported earlier that Roscosmos was in talks on the deployment of Glonass measurement stations in Argentina. Similar stations might be opened in other countries in South America, such as Brazil, Venezuela and Paraguay.