The Russian government, which in late 2011 succeeded in returning its Glonass positioning, navigation and timing satellite constellation to fully operational status, plans to launch three more Glonass satellites in the first half of 2012 and to spend some 20.5 billion roubles ($642 million) on the program this year, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced Jan. 17.
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