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a sweeping economic reform but demonstrators complained some old discontent is largely being passed over by the international media. and. by those of the headlines here a nazi next to our very own al going off tons of the spotlight on the man in charge of russia's answer to g.p.s. his satellites are set to go where none have gone before to stay with us. hello again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on our t.v. i'm al gore and today my guest is. g.p.s.

the global positioning system developed in the united states has long been the only functioning and reliable worldwide navigation system put recently russia introduced its own system called global us it satellites are meant to see areas with g.p.s. does it together they could guide us from space to every inch of terrain but as it happened i mean the development and the copper ration care is the director general of that stand a geisha systems. the positioning system has been functioning put two years in this short time it's had some positive feedback from outside of russia the swedish company says glonass operates better than g.p.s. in northern latitudes but there have been some problems with the ghana satellites three new ones crashed into the ocean on their way to the orbit this accident

caused some space officials their jobs and their criticism from the president. well after this criticism from the president that we just heard after they leave the serious of scandals connected to to develop and was there a major rethink of the project will there be any change in the glow nuts program. first of all i would like to point out that the go on ours and any settle it in a given system is a very complex. technical system and. sometimes these kind of accidents happen so in the future we are not planning to change it or to change our projects. we believe that the project is very well but

a success but it would be successful and the major tasks where following are now. the. beat up of this speeding up of development of the system and the implementation well the the the total fool each of satellites for glow now should be twenty four you know you lost three cell lies recently you planning to launch new ones when will you get here twenty four satellites and this year we're planning to launch six more said lloyd's and now we have twenty seven settlers in the orbit. there are three in backup satellites on the one and you settle a new generation of satellites which is which is being tested the moment. we believe. in a few months who will have to try to force that avoids this number is enough to cover the goal so by the end of this year you will be fully equipped

and ready to ready to to to cover the globe great by the end of the year we will have even one set of weights including some work up so little of that couple ok the well as far as i remember the argument when they started developing the system was that it's needed for the armed forces will be because a great superpower as russia is having its big armed forces could rely on a foreign positioning system so. today the russian armed forces are not yet equipped with ernest when will glow in our spare positions systems become standard issues for the russian army when will it become independent from there from the american g.p.s. in fact it is a independent already. for the courage of russia we need only. he to unsettle its medium said words as enough to cover the russian territory but

now i'm we develop the end user equipment that can work with two systems with nasa engineers. these dual system equipment. as we believe. give the cost of the user more reliability and accuracy so this is the major technology technology in the biggest instead or even a big asian. the usage of the use of two system one. i just just crossed my mind that would have been a very good answer for example if you said that the russian army uses learners on its own territory to position and the army russian army doesn't need a positioning system outside the russian carry that it would be their next plane at i hope so by the way we all hope so ok well as to gloat or sunlight those eighteen or whatever you have today nineteen they are already used today

intensively i mean they are functioning or they just ready to start being operational the can some of the console lease on the set of words ready to to be used but now we need to develop the. chipsets. so the devices to be used. for different applications so within two or three years. we're supposed to develop if you will different. devices for this evil. purposes for the military purposes. of a system so for many others so when they started developing learned here they said well g.p.s. is ok but the two systems together will give super precision when they work together and carp ration i can like one it will allow us to position people whoever up to inches well glenn ours is being developed g.p.s.

itself is very developed today where for example in your car wherever it gives you a couple of years this is why. than enough do people have to meet to pay more i mean they did the users the consumers to get even better precision they don't need it real well they do it depends on the if you keep your job because of for many politicians where mission critical. you need better preseason better accuracy to go on as the peers have been the used for many years already like what where do you need inches you need inches for a geodesic implications for cryptography for a car duster be keeshan when you need inches just as you mentioned but. in these professional be occasions dual system equipment and. have been used for many years already but for the consumer market the go on os.

is just about to be used. gives the go on our g.p.s. equipment works better. in this it is when you have big buildings. due to the. better accuracy really believed to you can see more subtle ways. and are also. works better. in the mountains for example which is also very important for some p.k. sions so. g.p.s. is not really perfect and for many countries it's important to be independent from military system and we feel that we see the demander in different countries due to a few basic reasons the better quality of the positioning and the independence.

from one system doesn't. military want to have their own position system i can understand that but the american army it relies on g.p.s. just as the other armies is it possible technically for americans to switch off for example the russian army or the serbian army or ever switch them off glass g.p.s. but continue using g.p.s. for their own soldiers i think this is this is not possible is it for a little an asset or a system one os and. have a special more of operation. has a serial called and it has a military code for the limited access for four users. in your generation so your generation generation of got to peers. there will be the possibility to so each of the signal. above some special territory and when it's needed the

development of russia as a global satellite navigation system has been a decades long struggle to overcome obstacles spotlight yelena the media has more and this. the google nasa program was begun in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. and managed to survive the co-op's of the u.s.s.r. but in one thousand nine hundred five all the satellites necessary for the systems function in were in place however the economic graces of the one nine hundred ninety s. were to the systems gradual degree day by the beginning of two thousand and one when new seeks out of the twenty four thirty lights were operational it took the russian space agency nine years to get coolness back on track and eugene your ation of longer lasting and more sophisticated satellites have been built and it seemed to goodness was only a step from completion to launch of three said the lights failed they didn't to

reshuffle it russian space agency. the missing satellites however are not the only problem the system is facing another one is the lack of digital maps for russia they're on a billable for big cities producing digital maps for all the provinces may become the largest investment. over the next two years. we know know that one of the best advertising advertising ideas for glass was when. put his dog got a special a special glow in us navigator and that this is one of the best well known gadgets that we have in russia harry is county but this lois lerner system but how soon will a normal a normal russian citizen if he is that the dog of the prime minister enter

a supermarket and buy a girl as gadget when it will be commercially available. thank you for mentioning this unique. problem and i mean it. was for fun for. for some of them but for our company it was a very difficult. experiment because two years ago it was quite difficult to find the appropriate one as appears chipset to be all in this device. but. coming back to your question this here. we come. if you devices and portable navigation devices for. presented at the beginning of the year but a few companies and navigators. are leading in the shops but there we believe that they will be we will need

a few more years to develop a. better the consumer products. g.p.s. has been on the market for twenty years. of development of consumer products just one of three years ago so you need to use two to two to develop a market for for the so we need to see what time says alexander of the director general of the glow that's navigation system spotlight will be back after we take a short break then go say where your. wealthy british scientists are some time to explain.

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welcome back to spotlight home i'll go in auburn just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is alexander because the director general of the global last navigation system was the critical one will glow in the last nerve a geisha and. get the full set of maps of the russian territory i know that well that at least a couple of weeks ago you still didn't address this is that true. there are a few companies. and also some global company was developing the maps for

the russian territory the digital maps here. we don't see lot of obstacles so commercialised going os technology. in this area. of course i would like some if you russian company was to become leaders in this market. were planning to stimulate. if you chose a company is to develop the position in this area but the moment is a massive that we don't see a lot of problems in this market i remember that in the soviet times maps were of great secret i mean i mean you couldn't buy maps of some vast territories of the say the teen years because of military secrets is it still

a problem in russia where the or where it's not no longer a problem actually the russian irrigation market started four years ago when this secrets. were removed in this industry in this area and now we don't have g.p.s. because because because google google because it was obvious for everybody to those figures and they were not relevant anymore. so the moment we don't see we don't have this problem there are some secrets and secretary stories. military. people. have other ways to. guarantee this secret i've read it in the paper is that starting in two thousand and thirteen all new cars i mean automobiles in russia on the russian market will be equipped with area glow nasa navigators how much will it cost and why will it be

necessary additional and desirable expense for the consumer. the estimated price for these embedded devices is about one from the dollars for pork for dewar's and these projects the wars are initiated by our company and supported by the president and by the government. because of this project will to save more lives in the accidents in europe for. the same project was started developed in the developing a few years ago and it was the name of the project is called emergency call a similar project. is being deployed in. brazil. and one of the tasks solving from one is asian or sanders or the requirements between the european russian and brazilian systems but isn't trying

to make people buy something make it obligatory making people pay for me and making them pay for a glow in the us instead of g.p.s. making the choice for them isn't it a violation of consumer rights. we don't think so that we don't think that this is the violation of the consumer rights. it's completely opposite we are trying to. to guarantee better security and safety in the end there on the roads for our own people for our citizens and. we may discuss the burden for our common effects or this and this project because the actual of this is the responsibility of a common affection is to build in these systems in their cars but for

consumers it's up to them if they get connected to the service to the system or not if so it's up to their choice so there's this the choice is still up to the consumer if he doesn't want to pay for it he may not pay for it ok now in their in their twisted the same question as there are speculations are fears that the government may impose additional customs barriers for g.p.s. equipment afterglow ness becomes hundred percent operational if that happens this means that this may mean extreme protectionism can you comment on that there are some initiatives from russian borders official borders to increase the custom uta's for g.p.s. based equipment. we believe that this is the sort of the these kind of measures sometimes can be applied to. stimulate

local technologists but. it should be done very carefully. in order to avoid the damage for the market. price increase in some cases. it's these kind of measures they appropriate. the technology of the industries aerated to replace the imported goods. in the country. we will see what will happen by the end of the year and all that the minister of and does so development is planning to introduce of this kind of measures and this is the good thing about about g.p.s. which we all knew is and he should have used the least once it is there you can go wherever you want specially in europe you can go from country to country using the same device even if you go far away you just buy

a new chip and you have the new map will it be the same with lowness will you be able to use it outside russia wouldn't it be much more expensive to use less than a g.p.s. if you go to europe it can be used anywhere more the manner of european developers and producers and for them to go on our g.p.s. equipment already and that all of them have their old maps their plans for development do more the quick moment in different types of devices and portable they're using devices mobile phones trackers and some other systems is g.p.s. willing to to cooperate with you are they glad that you exist are they are they happy about being forced to make those as g.p.s. their years we do corporate was g.p.s. developers. were trained to harmonize i will stand.

to make it easier for customers for users to work with both systems and also. china and europe for developing their own systems comp us early on so. this world is getting a little would be easy for such a way to get some systems well i would call it competition but you haven't mentioned the word competition for the last twenty minutes why isn't it a competition from your point of view yes there is the computer. between nasscom pass and girlie are. all of these systems. available for and into the g.p.s. and to be comfortable why why because g.p.s. a car otherwise they're going to eat you up. otherwise we will not achieve the results to improve the quality of the service do foreign countries.

show any interest in your program in the glitz program and which countries and of course. if you. have been signed by the us the space agency with. many different countries. with brazil. cuba india. counters from the middle east from. our company. works sort of closely with partners for us in brazil and the middle east the key markets thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind that my guest today on the show has her own questions was aleksandr will call the director general of the loan as navigation systems we talked about the development of the russian analog to g.p.s. a russian global positioning system called gloves and that's it for now from all of

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