China launched Beidou-3: analogue of GLONASS and GPS

The system's launch ceremony took place on Friday morning at the People's Assembly House in Beijing.

Beidou —global

a navigation system that will become a competitor to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS. It is expected that this year it will provide navigation services around the world.

It is assumed that it will start operating around the world by the end of 2020.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said thatThe Chinese development is a third generation system, it will work on a global scale. Moreover, you won’t have to wait long for it to operate at full capacity; the system began providing services this year.

Note that Beijing began the creation of Beidou in 2000the year when the first generation satellite of the Beidou-1A system was launched. Now in orbit there are spacecraft of three generations (BDS-1, BDS-2 and BDS-3), and the total number of spacecraft is 35. There are five satellites in geostationary orbit, three in inclined geosynchronous orbit, and another 27 satellites in medium near-earth orbit.

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