MOSCOW. July 5 (Interfax-AVN) - The GLONASS orbital group has the necessary reserve to work efficiently, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said at a meeting at the Government House on Friday.
"The developed space group of the GLONASS system has the necessary orbital reserve and the crash which happened should not lead to the decrease of its efficiency, however it is necessary to compensate for the loss of satellites in the future," Rogozin said.
The Proton-M rocket, launched at the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 2, was to put into orbit three GLONASS satellites. The rocket fell and exploded near the launch site within minutes.