Beidou Navigation System "EMPOWER IAS"

News:

• China launches the final satellite in Beidou Navigation System

 

Development of Beidou Satellite System:

• In the 1990s, China began developing its Beidou Satellite system and launched its first satellite in October 2000 and a lengthy upgrade of the system began in 2009.
• The latest new version which is called BDS-3 consists of 30 satellites for the applications that range from high precision positioning to the short message communications. Ahead of this latest launch, the BDS-3 network had 29 operational satellites.
• When compared to their BDS-2 predecessors, the BDS-3 system’s satellites have higher bandwidth, which enables enhanced communication capability as well as atomic clocks to improve the precision of navigation services and timings.

 

Development of Beidou Satellite System:

• In the 1990s, China began developing its Beidou Satellite system and launched its first satellite in October 2000 and a lengthy upgrade of the system began in 2009.
• The latest new version which is called BDS-3 consists of 30 satellites for the applications that range from high precision positioning to the short message communications. Ahead of this latest launch, the BDS-3 network had 29 operational satellites.
• When compared to their BDS-2 predecessors, the BDS-3 system’s satellites have higher bandwidth, which enables enhanced communication capability as well as atomic clocks to improve the precision of navigation services and timings.

 

China in Space:

• The launch of the Beidou navigation satellite was China’s second space mission in a week. On June 17, the country had launched its third Gaofen-9 Earth Observation Satellite into orbit. It was launched from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in Gobi Desert.
• The mission had also carried two smaller satellites- the fifth Automated Identification System services satellite for the private company HEAD Aerospace and a tiny picosatellite which is called Pixing-3. It was developed by Zhejiang University.
• Two other global navigation systems are also competing with China's Beidou system. Russia has its Glonass-M navigation satellites (the most recent one launched in March), to serve Russian military services on land, air and sea. Europe's Galileo system became operational in 2016 and is expected to launch its last satellites late in 2020