China Wednesday said its homegrown navigation system, deemed as rival to the US’ Global Positioning System (GPS), is expected to serve global users by 2020 and will provide open satellite navigation services “free of...
From http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/13/chinas-beidou-navigation-network-grows-with-successful-launch/ A Chinese Long March 3C rocket boosted a fresh satellite into orbit Sunday to join the country’s Beidou navigation system, deploying the craft into an elliptical orbit ranging more than 22,000 miles...
