Precision Instrument Engineering Systems company (part of Roscosmos) signed a contract with the Federal University of Pará and the Research Development and Support Fund to place a SM-GLONASS measurement station in the city of Belen, Brazil.

This is the sixth GLONASS measurement station created as part of the Sigal design and development work.

SM-GLONASS station is meant for continuous tracking of GLONASS, GPS Galileo, COMPASS and QZSS open signals, as well as receiving navigational frames and control signal parameter authenticity, as well as measure pseudo-range according to the code phase and carrier frequency for all the system signals with the frequency of not less than 1 Hz.