GLONASS Suffered from Another (Smaller) Disfunction

On April 14th, 2014 at 21:00 UTC, eight GLONASS satellites (02, 08, 10, 12, 16, 19, 23, 24) become unusable for 30 minutes.

This happens just two weeks after the constellation experienced a full outage for 11 hours (read here), demonstrating the limited reliability of the Russian constellation as a standalone GNS…