MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Roscosmos held consultations with Cuba, Iran, and several other countries over placing GLONASS measuring stations in their territories, the state corporation said in its annual report for 2017.
"In 2017, consultations were held with Cuba, Fiji, Mexico, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea, Iran, and a number of other countries over the placement of GLONASS measuring stations on their territories," Roscosmos said.
"There are currently ten stations abroad: four in Brazil, one in South Africa, one in Nicaragua, one in Kazakhstan, and three in the Antarctic," it said.
It emerged earlier that Roscosmos is planning to deploy a mobile reception-transmission complex in Cuba by May 2019. The system was created in 2015 and has already been tested. It is designed to receive information from the Resurs-P, Kanopus-V, and Kanopus-V-IK satellites and transmit it to a data-reception, -processing, and -distribution complex on the ground.
A Soviet radio-electronic center was set up in Lourdes, Cuba since 1967. The complex, located approximately 250 kilometers from the U.S. coast, provided signal interception over a large part of U.S. territory. After the breakup of the USSR, the center went over to the Russian Defense Ministry. It was shut down in 2002 due to lack of funding for maintenance.