Russia launches three GLONASS navigation satellites {Engadget}

Oct 26th 2007 1:06PM The name is long-ish but, like GPS stands for Global Positioning System, GLONASS both in russian and english stands for GLObal NAvigation Satelite System or someting along those lines. Could just as well be shortened to GNSS but pronouncing that will take more time than GLONASS :)