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from the SCMP - hopefully, they will be able to convert between the 2 coordinate systems, if needed

 

  • Successful launch of new BeiDou-3 satellites expected to ensure network will be up and running by the end of the year

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The launch means that a total of 19 BeiDou-3 satellites are now in orbit – enough to start providing basic navigation services when testing is complete.
By 2020 the system will be expanded to a network of 35 satellites – enough to provide a global navigation and communications system, which industry insiders said could rival the dominance of GPS.
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China began developing the original version at the end of the 20th century as a way of boosting the country’s space programme as well as freeing the People’s Liberation Army from its reliance on the American-built GPS.

 

 

 

 

A discussion of the mis-matched coordinates -

 

Mapping China - Chinese style

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from the SCMP - hopefully, they will be able to convert between the 2 coordinate systems, if needed

 

  • Successful launch of new BeiDou-3 satellites expected to ensure network will be up and running by the end of the year

0e80ff3c-ebfa-11e8-b0fe-c62dccd2d711_128

 

 

 

The launch means that a total of 19 BeiDou-3 satellites are now in orbit – enough to start providing basic navigation services when testing is complete.
By 2020 the system will be expanded to a network of 35 satellites – enough to provide a global navigation and communications system, which industry insiders said could rival the dominance of GPS.
. . .
China began developing the original version at the end of the 20th century as a way of boosting the country’s space programme as well as freeing the People’s Liberation Army from its reliance on the American-built GPS.

 

 

 

 

A discussion of the mis-matched coordinates -

 

Mapping China - Chinese style

 

from the Global Times on Facebook

 

https://www.facebook.com/115591005188475/posts/3188501914564020/

 

#Breaking: China launches final satellite of #BeiDou system, overcomes technical delay

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/115591005188475/posts/3188501914564020/

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from the SCMP

 

 

China’s global aspirations lift as BeiDou satellite launches into orbit

  • Third generation navigational network makes Beijing an ‘aerospace power’ says design engineer after successful launch
  • Development puts Chinese coverage on equal footing with US, Europe and Russian global satellite constellations

 

 

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The satellite was launched from Xichang, in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, and was carried by a Long March 3B rocket – second most powerful in the Long March rocket family, and the primary one for delivering communications satellites into orbit.
The completion of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was six months ahead of schedule, according to Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily.
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The development of BeiDou – which is the name in Mandarin for the Big Dipper constellation, also known as the Plough – was spurred by the loss of two missiles in 1996, fired across the Taiwan Strait to deter the self-ruled island from moving towards independence. Later analysis by Chinese scientists blamed the failures on disruptions to the GPS system.

 

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=623946295200830&id=355665009819

 

China launched the last satellite in its BeiDou-3 constellation into orbit on Tuesday morning, completing its long-awaited global navigation network.

Read more here: https://sc.mp/zw0l2

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/355665009819/posts/623946295200830/

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