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 ...

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.

FILE PHOTO: A model of BeiDou Satellite Navigation system. NANJING: China's BeiDou-3 system, a global geolocation network, is expected to be completed in 2020, with a total of 35 satellites, ...

The first version of Beidou, meaning “Big Dipper,” was decommissioned in 2012. Plans call for a smarter, more accessible and more integrated system with Beidou at its core, to come online by 2035.

With the BeiDou system set to be completed in May, China is stepping up efforts to sell other countries on its global satellite navigation system.

MOSCOW, September 27. /TASS/. Russia and China have signed contracts for the deployment of Russia’s GLONASS stations in China and China’s Beidou system stations in Russia, the state ...

The Beidou G7 satellite is a critical component of China’s Beidou global navigation system. Since its launch in 2015, it has exceeded its intended lifespan. Traditionally, when a satellite’s ...

The U.S. telecom regulator FCC wants to seek an alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS) for security reasons. The ...

NT1021 is a single-chip dual-channel RF front-end consuming a very low power (47 mW typical at 2.1 V) and performing a simultaneous reception of both GPS/Galileo/BeiDou and GLONASS signals. Highly ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Feb 18, 2025 shows a seeder equipped with the Beidou Navigation Satellite System sowing in a field during the day of yu shui (Rain Water), the second of the 24 solar ...