The first of the three GLONASS-M satellites to be launched on 2 September 2010 has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
GLONASS vehicle No. 37 (to be known as 737 on launch) arrived on a transport plane from Krasnoyarsk on 26 July.
Ground testing of the satellite is already underway. The other two satellites to be launched (Nos. 36 and 38) will arrive in early August.
The scheduled launch time on 2 September is 00:53:43 UTC.
The Proton-M rocket that is scheduled to be used to launch the GLONASS satellites was damaged in a rail incident on the way to Baikonur. The rocket is being examined to see if it is flight-worthy. If it is not, then a reserve rocket, already dispatched to Baikonur, will be used instead.