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a body into a show me into. as the headlines up next. turns the spotlight on the month in charge of russia's also to g.p.s. satellites are set to go where none has gone. well. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered. hello again a 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 globe the us its satellites are meant to see areas with g.p.s. does it together they could guide us from space every inch of terrain but as it happened i mean the development and the copper ration care is the director general glow now stand a geisha systems i like sound that will cause. the bomb ass 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 planets operates better than g.p.s. in northern latitudes but there have been some problems with a glance at like three new ones crashed into the ocean on their way to the orbit this accident caused some space officials their jobs and the criticism from the

president. was a little while to show well after this criticism from the president that we just heard. today the 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 on the the go on hours and any set a late addition system is a very complex. technical system and. sometimes these kind of accidents happen so in the future we are not planning to change to change our projects. we believe the project is very well that a success very good a successful and the major tasks where following are now.

the. beat up of this speeding up of development of the system and the limitation 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 your twenty four satellites and this year we're planning to launch six more said lloyd's and now we have twenty one set the ways and 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 he will have to try to force it 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 great by the end of the year we will have even one set of words including some work up so little of that couple ok the well as far as i remember the argument when they started developing the global system was that it's needed for the armed forces will be there because a great superpower as russia is having its big armed forces could rely on a foreign positioning system so that today the russian armed forces are not yet equipped with us when will glow in our spare positioning systems become standard issues for the russian army when will it become independent from their from the american g v s and thirty's of independent already. for the courage of russia we need only. he to unsettle its median said words is enough to cover the russian territory but now i'm we develop the end user equipment that can

work with two systems with one 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 will try. and settle it never given. the usage of the use of two system point. 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 jerry that it would have been explained 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 consolidation the set of words 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 were supposed to develop a few different. devices for this evil. purposes for the military purposes for fleet management system so for many others. when they started developing learned here they said well a g.p.s. is ok but the two systems together will give super precision when they work together in cart ration i can like one it will allow us to position people whoever up to inches well glenn ass 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 more 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 occasion because of for many politicians where mission critical. you need better preseason better accuracy to go on as their peers. have been the used for many years already and look what where do you need inches you need inches for a geodesic implications for cryptography for a car does that apply kishen when you need inches just as you mentioned but. in these professional occasions dual system equipment gone are the peers have been used for many years already but for the consumer market go on os.

it's just about to be used. gives the go on our g.p.s. equipment works better. in the cedar's when they have big buildings. due to the. better accuracy really ability you can see more subtle ways. and also. works better. in the mountains for example which is also very important for sample kitchens. so. g.p.s. is not really perfect for many countries it's important to be independent from military system and with fuel 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 one 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 of the sarah b. the army you ever switch them off let us g.p.s. but continue using g.p.s. for their own soldiers i think this is this is not possible or is it for a little and as subtle as system one os and g.p.s. services personel more though of variation has a serial called and it has a military code with a limited access for four users. a new generation. generation of ago in japan. there will be the possibility to switch off the signal. above some special territory and when it's needed. the development of russia's

global satellite navigation system has been a decades long struggle to overcome obstacles spotlight yelena the media has more on this. the glue 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. one thousand nine hundred ninety five all the satellites necessary for the systems functioning were in place however the economic crisis of the one nine hundred ninety s. led to the system's gradual degree day by the beginning of two thousand and one on the six out of the twenty four said lights were operational it took the russian space agency nine years to get google nasa back on track and eugénie ration of longer lasting and more sophisticated satellites have been built and it seemed goodness was only a step from completion to launch of three said the lights failed they didn't to reshuffle at russia's space agency the missing satellites are however not the only

problem the system is facing another one is a lack of digital maps for russia they're on a valuable for big cities producing digital maps for all the provinces and they become the largest investment when asked over the next two years. when all know that one of the best advertising advertising ideas for glass was when. put his dog got a special special glow as navigator and that this is one of the. best well known gadgets that we have in russia here he is carney but this globe has lower system but how soon will a normal and normal russian citizen if he's not the dog of the prime minister enter a supermarket and buy

a grown ass gadget when it will be commercially available. thank you for mentioning this unique opportunity not only i mean it. was fun for. for somebody but for our company it was a very difficult. experiment because it was a two years ago it was quite difficult of appropriate to go on i was a peer of the chipset to be able in these devices but. coming back to your question this year. we've come. if you devices. portable navigation devices for. presented at the beginning of the year but if you companies. they begin. are already in the shops but we believe that they will be we will need

a few more years to develop. better the consumer products. g.p.s. has been on the market for twenty years. the development of a consumer product is just one of three years ago so you need to use two to two to develop a market for for for the good i think that's what we need so much time says alexander the director general of the glow that's navigation system the spotlight will be back after we take a short break down go say way your. the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an hour long regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be

no doubt about we know for a fact that there are limits there. is we're just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community and for by. david kay he is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search you have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true

patriots. takes the unpopular course but helps their country avoid mistakes and even if they come this way at least they tried patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other.

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welcome back to spotlight time i'll get off in just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is alexandra because the director general of the global nasa navigation system. when will glow in ass navigation. get the full set of maps of the russian territory i know that well at least a couple of weeks ago you still didn't have this this is true. there are a few companies and also some global company was developing the maps for the russian territory and digital maps here. we don't see a lot of obstacles so commercialised going mastic knowledge of. this area. of course i would like some if you russian company was to become leaders in this market. were planning to stimulate. you if you chose and

companies 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 seventeen you because of military secrets is it still a problem in russia or the or or it's not no longer a problem actually the russian irrigation market started four years ago when this secrets. were moved 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 don't see we don't

have this problems there are some secrets and secret territory is. 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 one will it be a necessary additional and desirable expense for the consumer. and the estimated price for these embedded devices is about one hundred dollars for for for divorce and these projects were 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 equal emergency call similar project. is being deployed in. brazil. and one of the tasks solving the harmonization of the standards or the requirements between 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 glow thus instead of g.p.s. making the choice for them isn't it's a violation of consumer rights. we don't think so the we don't think that this is the very least another consumer. it's completely

opposite we are trying to. to guarantee better security and safety in the end there on the roads for our people for our citizens and. we may discuss the no burden for our common effects years and this project because a actually 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 then there is 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. there is no there twist to the same question as there are speculations are fears that the government

may impose additional customs barriers for it 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 their customs duties for g.p.s. based equipment. we believe that this is a these kind of measures sometimes can be applied to. stimulate the local technologists but. it should be done very carefully. in order to avoid the damage for the market. price increase or in some cases. it's these kind of measures they appropriate. the technology of the industries are rated to replace imported goods. in the country.

we will see what will happen with the end of the year and all that the minister of and also the relevant is planning to introduce of this kind of measures and this is the good thing about about g.p.s. which we all news and even i'm sure i have used the least once is that 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 just by 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 or you'd rather need to go to europe. it can be used anywhere and more the mania 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 quitman in different types of devices 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 happy about being forced to make those g.p.s. their years we do cooperate 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 in 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 competition between nasscom pass and girly but all of these systems. do you drill and let you write them for and into the g.p.s. and to be comfortable why why because g.p.s. because 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 gloom that's program and which countries and of course. if you. have been signed by the us this precision is here with. man a different country. with. cuba. counters from the middle east from. our company. works sort of closely

with the indian partners for us india brazil and the middle east the key markets thank you thank you very much for being with us and just remind that my guests began the show transfer of questions was alexander will call the director general of the glowin as navigation states to sweet talked about the development of the russian analog to g.p.s. a russian global positioning system called a lot of stuff and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your sales spotlight we have someone in mind to let you think i should get to you next time to drop me a line at al green or at r t g r u and let's keep spotlight contract to be back with more comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on our team and take i suppose.

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