Tsikada

Tsikada (Russian: Цикада meaning cicada) was a Soviet satellite navigation system including ten Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. It transmitted the same two carrier frequencies as the U.S. TRANSIT satellite system. The first satellite was launched in 1974.

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  1. 1 2 Hofmann-Wellenhof, Bernhard; Lichtenegger, Herbert; Wasle, Elmar (2008). GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and more. Wien New York: Springer. p. 5. Bibcode:2008gnss.book.....H. doi:10.1007/978-3-211-73017-1. ISBN 978-3-211-73017-1.