Russia builds space-tracking station in Nicaragua

Russian experts will construct a ground Glonass satellite navigation tracking station in Nicaragua, an okfficial Russian source said Monday.

Implementation of the project started in November 2014 and the contract on construction of the station was signed in August 2015. Glonass is the Russian version of the GPS, a global navigation satellite system meant to fix the location and speed of surface, sea and air objects to within an accuracy of one meter.

Source: Sputnik