OREANDA-NEWS. February 04, 2010. 9 More Satellites will Join GLONASS Constellation in 2010, Yury Urlichich, Russian Space Instrumentation and Data System Corp. DG and General Designer, told journalists.  Questioned during the Security Forum in Moscow, he also reminded that currently GLONASS comprises 22 satellites. 19 of them operate nominally.

According to Urlichich, 3 more cluster launches of the Glonass satellites are to take place this year.