Cooperation between ESA, the European Commission and Russia concerning satellite navigation system, mainly on GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and GLONASS.
Relevant subjects: deployment of EGNOS RIMS tracking stations, hosted by RIRT (Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time) in St. Petersburg and Murmansk; ESA GNSS-1 project; Galileo proposals; GNSS-2 project and status report; GLONASS flight experiment; GNSS-2 system definition study.
The file includes: record of the meeting between representatives of ESA, the European Commission and the Russian Federation held on 22-24 February 1999 in Brussels on the possible development of a European satellite navigation system; summary of meeting held on 18 February 1999 on GNSS development; signature of the Tripartite Agreement on navigation between ESA, European Commission and Eurocontrol on 18 June 1998; draft agreement between the Russian Space Agency and ESA on cooperation in the area of satellite navigation; summary of the meeting on GNSS cooperation held on 14 May 1998 in Moscow; protocol of the meeting with V.V. Bulgak on 24 March 1998; preliminary conclusions of GNSS-2 Ad-Hoc Working Group, including proposal for a Russian and Western Europe preparatory program on Future Generation Navigation Satellite System.

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