{"id":6486,"date":"2011-02-26T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T02:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2011-02-26T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T20:31:01","slug":"russia-glonass-hopes-to-compete-with-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/russia-glonass-hopes-to-compete-with-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Glonass Hopes to Compete with GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/glonass-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\nGLONASS Logo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia took another step towards increasing power in space:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- BODY,.aolmailheader     {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link    {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active  {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover   {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} --><\/p>\n<div id=\"headline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Russia launches navigation system  satellite<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"deck\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Moscow hopes satellite will challenge dominant U.S. Global  Positioning System<\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Reuters <\/strong>&#8211; Feb 26, 2011<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">MOSCOW\u00a0\u2014  Russia launched on Saturday <strong>one of the final satellites needed to  complete a space-based navigation system<\/strong>, which Moscow hopes will  challenge the dominant U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The satellite, Glonass-K&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Moscow is hoping the navigation technology Glonass  will create a revolution in domestic consumer technology, with applications  expected to be used in mobile telephones and automobiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Without Glonass, Russia&#8217;s military fears that it is  at the mercy of the United States, which it says could block or blur its GPS  signal in a time of crisis<\/strong>&#8230;<\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41796868\/ns\/technology_and_science-space\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41796868\/ns\/technology_and_science-space\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41796868\/ns\/technology_and_science-space\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Glonass may still have some issues, but it is part of Russia&#8217;s plan to remain a major military power.  And unlike the USA, it seems more determined to upgrade its space systems in order to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The USA is having trouble with its GPS system and announced that it intends to link up Europe&#8217;s upcoming Galileo for part of its defense needs (see<a title=\"Permanent Link to USA GPS and EU Galileo linking was expected\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"\/news\/prophecy\/usa-gps-and-eu-galileo-linking-was-expected\/\"> USA GPS and EU Galileo linking was expected<\/a>).  By doing so, the USA is making itself vulnerable from hostilities that could arise from the Europeans.\u00a0\u00a0  This is something I warned about, prior to it happening, in my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecretsect.com\/\">2012 and the Rise of the Secret    Sect<\/a>.\u00a0 The Europeans could, and likely will, block the USA&#8217;s ability to utilize some or all of Galileo\/GPS when it needs to counter-attack Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The USA is getting more vulnerable to satellite disruption while the Europeans and Russians are each getting less vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some items of related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/russia_in_prophecy.htm\">Russia: Its   Origins and Prophesied Future<\/a> Where do the Russians come from? What   about those in the Ukraine? What is prophesied for Russia and its   allies? What will they do to the Europeans that supported the Beast in   the end?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/is-russia-the-king-of-the-north.htm\">Is   Russia the King of the North?<\/a> Some claim it is. But what does the   Bible teach?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecretsect.com\/\">2012 and the Rise of the Secret   Sect<\/a> This is a link related to a book by Bob Thiel (COGwriter) that  attempts to explain where many prophetic and world events are leading.   This  also has YouTube videos related to 2012.  World events have aligned with at least 11 predictions in it since it was released in September 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLONASS Logo COGwriter Russia took another step towards increasing power in space: Russia launches navigation system satellite Moscow hopes satellite will challenge dominant U.S. Global Positioning System Reuters &#8211; Feb 26, 2011 MOSCOW\u00a0\u2014 Russia launched on Saturday one of the final satellites needed to complete a space-based navigation system, which Moscow hopes will challenge the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}