China's SatNav System Operational, Plans To Cover Earth Completely

China is fast gaining pace in the race of establishing its own Satellite Navigation System and recently saw its SatNav system getting operational. This development by Beijing is seen as a step for reducing its dependence on foreign navigation systems. Recently, Europe also expressed its desire to have its own SatNav system in place, in case the American GPS fails.
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With the present development, China plans to have a total of 35 satellites monitoring earth by 2020. In this attempt, the Asian country has already stationed 10 satellites in their orbits. In next two years, it also plans to add another six to its existing fleet. The satellites will mainly be used by Military but even civilians would be able to benefit from it.

China GPS rival Beidou starts offering navigation data - BBC News that is developed and made operational by Beidou Navigation System will give data accurate up to 10m, provide clock synchronization to 0.02 millionths of a second and detect a speed 0.2 m/s. Of course the military will be able to access more accurate data.

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