It became known today that is out of order the second week of the GLONASS satellites.

Russia 2018 stop the government funding the operator of GLONASS, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Mr. Rogozin, the company moved to self-sufficiency, reports kommersant.ru

“This is very important, highlights the success of the policy of commercialization of opportunities that the Russian orbital system,”— quoted Deputy Prime Minister press-service of the Kremlin.

Dmitry Rogozin added that the government believes is technically possible to combine the system ERA-GLONASS, “Safe city” and “System-112”. “This will be a one-stop call centers, unified navigation “Safe city” to “Smart city”. That is, GLONASS will be introduced including in these technologies,” said Russian Deputy Prime Minister.

About the possibility of merging hardware systems ERA-GLONASS call center 112 and a “Safe city” to create the “Smart city”, “Kommersant” became known in March. At today’s meeting with Dmitry Rogozin this initiative was supported by Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, today it became known that failed the second week of the GLONASS satellites.