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China's Beidou System targets global service around 2020
2016-07-24 11:10CRIENGLISH.comEditor: Yao Lan
China launches the 23rd BeiDou Navigation Satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 12, 2016. (Photo: weibo.com)
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), which is independently developed and operated by China, is well positioned to provide services worldwide. It will service countries along the Belt and Road Initiative by 2018 and expand its reach globally by 2020.
Zhang Chunling, Chief Engineer of China's Satellite Navigation System management office, made the remarks on Saturday while attending a technical seminar in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.
Zhang said that the BDS has provided regional services for three years, with stronger performances in Beijing and Nanjing as well as low latitudes areas.
The BeiDou project was formally launched in 1994. On June 12 this year, China successfully launched the 23rd BeiDou navigation satellite that was said to be well prepared for extensive civil use and providing global services.
According to Zhang, the new homegrown BeiDou chip modules and some other core infrastructure products have been gradually made available to meet the demand of smart phones, tablet computers, wearable devices and so on.
The technology has lifted China's dependency on imported high-accuracy satellite navigation products, said Zhang.
The Chinese government released a white paper in June this year, elaborating on the development of the BDS.
According to the document, China has formulated a three-step strategy for developing the BDS and aims to complete the development of the 35 satellite constellation around 2020 to provide all-time, all-weather and high-accuracy positioning, navigation and timing services to users globally.
The services cover the area between 55 degrees north latitude and 55 degrees south latitude and between 55 and 180 degrees east longitude, with a positioning accuracy of less than 10 meters, a velocity measurement accuracy of less than 0.2 meters per second and a timing accuracy of less than 50 nanoseconds.
2016 July 21, the opening of the China satellite navigation academic annual meeting came news, Beidou system's first overseas network project has been in Pakistan completed the first phase of the project construction, follow-up will also carry out the second phase of the project, covering the whole territory of Pakistan.
China unveils construction plan for first high-capacitybroadband satellite system
(People's Daily Online) 17:51, July 25, 2016
(Photo/CASC)
China is scheduled to launch its first high-capacity broadband satellite by the end of 2018,and to begin satellite communications services by 2019, according to the satellite system'sblueprint.
The blueprint was revealed as part of a contract signed between the Shenzhen governmentand China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on July 23, according toCASC's official WeChat platform. A new company, APT Mobile SatCom Limited (APSTAR),co-founded by the two bodies, was also unveiled.
APSTAR will shoulder the responsibility for construction of the high-capacity broadbandsatellite system, the costs for which are estimated at 10 billion yuan.
Cheng Guangren, president of APSTAR and also an expert on communications satellites,said the company will launch two more high-capacity broadband satellites to serve in theAmericas, Europe and Africa, creating a global broadband satellite communications systemby 2020.
According to CASC, the system will have three to four satellites, each with a capacitydozens of times that of normal broadband satellites.
“With the help of high-capacity broadband satellites, we can now offer better service inremote areas, in the air and on the sea where there used to be no communicationsservices,” Cheng was quoted as saying.
When it is complete, China's global communications system will offer a continuous, reliableand autonomous service that supports the Belt and Road Initiative as well as otheroverseas development projects, the CASC post explained.
2016-07-24 11:10CRIENGLISH.comEditor: Yao Lan
China launches the 23rd BeiDou Navigation Satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 12, 2016. (Photo: weibo.com)
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), which is independently developed and operated by China, is well positioned to provide services worldwide. It will service countries along the Belt and Road Initiative by 2018 and expand its reach globally by 2020.
Zhang Chunling, Chief Engineer of China's Satellite Navigation System management office, made the remarks on Saturday while attending a technical seminar in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.
Zhang said that the BDS has provided regional services for three years, with stronger performances in Beijing and Nanjing as well as low latitudes areas.
The BeiDou project was formally launched in 1994. On June 12 this year, China successfully launched the 23rd BeiDou navigation satellite that was said to be well prepared for extensive civil use and providing global services.
According to Zhang, the new homegrown BeiDou chip modules and some other core infrastructure products have been gradually made available to meet the demand of smart phones, tablet computers, wearable devices and so on.
The technology has lifted China's dependency on imported high-accuracy satellite navigation products, said Zhang.
The Chinese government released a white paper in June this year, elaborating on the development of the BDS.
According to the document, China has formulated a three-step strategy for developing the BDS and aims to complete the development of the 35 satellite constellation around 2020 to provide all-time, all-weather and high-accuracy positioning, navigation and timing services to users globally.
The services cover the area between 55 degrees north latitude and 55 degrees south latitude and between 55 and 180 degrees east longitude, with a positioning accuracy of less than 10 meters, a velocity measurement accuracy of less than 0.2 meters per second and a timing accuracy of less than 50 nanoseconds.
2016 July 21, the opening of the China satellite navigation academic annual meeting came news, Beidou system's first overseas network project has been in Pakistan completed the first phase of the project construction, follow-up will also carry out the second phase of the project, covering the whole territory of Pakistan.
China unveils construction plan for first high-capacitybroadband satellite system
(People's Daily Online) 17:51, July 25, 2016
(Photo/CASC)
China is scheduled to launch its first high-capacity broadband satellite by the end of 2018,and to begin satellite communications services by 2019, according to the satellite system'sblueprint.
The blueprint was revealed as part of a contract signed between the Shenzhen governmentand China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on July 23, according toCASC's official WeChat platform. A new company, APT Mobile SatCom Limited (APSTAR),co-founded by the two bodies, was also unveiled.
APSTAR will shoulder the responsibility for construction of the high-capacity broadbandsatellite system, the costs for which are estimated at 10 billion yuan.
Cheng Guangren, president of APSTAR and also an expert on communications satellites,said the company will launch two more high-capacity broadband satellites to serve in theAmericas, Europe and Africa, creating a global broadband satellite communications systemby 2020.
According to CASC, the system will have three to four satellites, each with a capacitydozens of times that of normal broadband satellites.
“With the help of high-capacity broadband satellites, we can now offer better service inremote areas, in the air and on the sea where there used to be no communicationsservices,” Cheng was quoted as saying.
When it is complete, China's global communications system will offer a continuous, reliableand autonomous service that supports the Belt and Road Initiative as well as otheroverseas development projects, the CASC post explained.
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