A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS ...

satellite also from the LC2 Launch Complex from Xichang. Beidou-3 IGSO-2 (Beidou-46) was launched on June 24 using the Long March-3B/G2 (Y60) from the LC3 Launch Complex. This was followed by the ...

The Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS ... and to complete the construction of BDS-3 and provide services worldwide around 2020 with a constellation of 27 MEOs plus 5 GEOs and the existing ...

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology successfully launched the Smart Dragon-3 (Jielong-3) rocket on January 13, 2025, near Haiyang in Shandong province, deploying 10 CentiSpace-01 ...

The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is China's version of GPS. Uniquely, it's made up of two separate satellite constellations and it's been claimed that, with post-processing, it's accurate to ...

BeiDou and GPS are two of the four core providers of global satellite navigation systems, along with Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System, or GLONASS, and the European Union's Galileo.

Xue Jianguo, a former executive at one of China’s largest arms manufacturers who later helped push for civilian use of the BeiDou satellite navigation system, is under investigation for alleged ...