Liu Fang (left) and Wang Feixue. Photo: cpc.people.com.cn
Asia Times: China’s precision navigation system to use 30 satellites
BeiDou-3 will be able to achieve accuracy 'within millimeters', 10 times as precise as GPS, according to previous media reports
China is building a military-grade navigation system called BeiDou-3 that will have global coverage through more than 30 satellites, according to an academic speaking on the sidelines of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
In 1995, China started to develop its first BeiDou Navigation Satellite System as an alternative to the Global Positioning System in use by the United States, Dr Wang Feixue, a professor at the College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, said at a media briefing on Sunday evening.
“Our satellite program kicked off 20 years later than foreign countries’. We have not yet achieved full global coverage at the moment,” Wang said. “There is still a long way for us to go.”
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WNU Editor: China is still far away from having such a system, but for the Chinese military this has become a vital national security priority for them. My prediction .... it will be operational before we know it.
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