The Russian government, attempting to catch up to the U.S. GPS navigation system’s commercial success and anticipate Europe’s future Galileo effort, has enacted a law forcing Russian consumers to use only those terminals capable of receiving Russian Glonass satellite signals starting in 2006, according to the Russian space agency, Roskosmos.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.