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Monday, June 5th, 2017

BeiDou Driving Value of China’s Satellite Navigation and Location Services Industry

The output value of BeiDou, China's satellite navigation and location-based service industry, increased more than 22% year on year and has topped 211 billion yuan (about 30.8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2016, according to news reports on...

Wednesday, May 24th, 2017

China’s Satnav Industry Grows 22 Percent in 2016

The output value of China's satellite navigation and location-based service industry reached 211.8 billion yuan ($30.8 billion U.S.) in 2016, up 22.1 percent year on the year, according to an industry white paper released by the Global...

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Chinese Navigation System BeiDou Makes Significant Progress in GPS Navigation

China: Engineers working on Chinese satellite navigation system, BeiDou, have announced that the system has made significant progress in terms of its accuracy. At a press conference, the BeiDou engineers confirmed that the satellites can pin users...

Friday, December 30th, 2011

New Satellites to Extend China’s Military Reach

China this week reached a milestone in its drive to master the military use of space with the launch of trials for its Beidou satellite global positioning network, a move that will bring it one step closer...

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Chinese Confirm Beidou Satnav System Is Operational

China's  Beidou satellite navigation system is operational, albeit mainly in China, and say they plan to have free, global coverage in place by 2020. At a press conference the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said that Beidou – which translates as Big...

Friday, November 25th, 2011

China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System Aiming at Transportation

China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System continues to grow as it approaches 10 satellites in space, marching onward toward it's 2012 mainly China operational status with global coverage targeted for 2020. It is being reported that the Beidou...

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

China Set to Launch Ninth Beidou Navigation Satellite

China is preparing to launch its ninth “Beidou” or Compass navigation satellite in the coming days, an official media report said on Monday. The satellite will be launched as part of China’s indigenous satellite-navigation set-up. A Long...

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Chinese Beidou System to Challenge U.S. Dominancy

Beidou, the China's second generation of satellite system features services of locating, navigation, timing and even text message communication covering the Asia Pacific region by 2012, said the system chief designer Sun Jiadong. Such upgrades are perceived by...

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

JAVAD Research – Compass Signal Better Than GALILEO

JAVAD company has been conducting research into the signal strength for both GALILEO Giove-B and the Chinese COMPASS (Beidou) GPS satellite systems. Graphs of the plotted results appear to indicate that that the Chinese system has greater...

Friday, February 4th, 2011

JAVAD GNSS Receivers Can Track Chinese Compass (Beidou-2)

With modified firmware, all JAVAD GNSS receivers can track Chinese Compass B1 signal now. This is 6th GNSS system supported by JAVAD GNSS (GPS, Glonass, Galileo (Giove), SBAS (Egnos), QZSS, Compass). Log file, collected on TR_G3TH board...