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		<title>Claudia.Prajanu at 14:06, 10 August 2018</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), also known as BeiDou-2&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS&amp;gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[http://www.filasinternational.eu/sidereus-project/pdf/02.pdf &lt;/del&gt;Compass/BeiDou Status&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/del&gt;, Jun Shen, BNStar Navigation Technology &amp;amp; System, Inc., Rome (Italy), June 11, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki&amp;gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_WORLDWIDE&amp;gt;[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3590 &lt;/del&gt;BeiDou China’s Rapidly Emerging GNSS, InsideGNSS, May/June 2014]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), also known as BeiDou-2&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS&amp;gt; Compass/BeiDou Status, Jun Shen, BNStar Navigation Technology &amp;amp; System, Inc., Rome (Italy), June 11, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki&amp;gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_WORLDWIDE&amp;gt;[ BeiDou China’s Rapidly Emerging GNSS, InsideGNSS, May/June 2014]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the evolution of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BDS System was done in 2006 and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the evolution of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BDS System was done in 2006 and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Filipe.Pelica at 11:04, 27 May 2014</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), also known as BeiDou-2&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS&amp;gt;[http://www.filasinternational.eu/sidereus-project/pdf/02.pdf Compass/BeiDou Status], Jun Shen, BNStar Navigation Technology &amp;amp; System, Inc., Rome (Italy), June 11, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki&amp;gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_WORLDWIDE&amp;gt;[http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3590 BeiDou China’s Rapidly Emerging GNSS, InsideGNSS, May/June 2014]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), also known as BeiDou-2&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS&amp;gt;[http://www.filasinternational.eu/sidereus-project/pdf/02.pdf Compass/BeiDou Status], Jun Shen, BNStar Navigation Technology &amp;amp; System, Inc., Rome (Italy), June 11, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki&amp;gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_WORLDWIDE&amp;gt;[http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3590 BeiDou China’s Rapidly Emerging GNSS, InsideGNSS, May/June 2014]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;upgrade &lt;/del&gt;of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BDS System was done in &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;2004 &lt;/del&gt;and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;evolution &lt;/ins&gt;of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BDS System was done in &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;2006 &lt;/ins&gt;and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As of December 2011, the BeiDou system was officially announced to provide Initial Operational Service providing initial passive positioning navigation and timing services for the whole Asia-Pacific region with a constellation of 10 satellites (5 GEO satellites and 5 IGSO satellites)&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;China Daily&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-12/28/content_14343656.htm Satellite navigation system launched], China Daily Europe, December 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki/&amp;gt;. During 2012, 5 additional satellites (1 GEO satellites and 4 MEO satellites) were launched increasing to 14 the number of satellites of the constellation. Until 2020, the system is going to launch the remaining satellites and [[BeiDou_Future_and_Evolutions|evolve]] towards global navigation capability.&amp;lt;ref name=BEIDOU_MUNICH_2011&amp;gt;China Satellite Navigation Office, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Development of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;China Daily&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As of December 2011, the BeiDou system was officially announced to provide Initial Operational Service providing initial passive positioning navigation and timing services for the whole Asia-Pacific region with a constellation of 10 satellites (5 GEO satellites and 5 IGSO satellites)&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;China Daily&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-12/28/content_14343656.htm Satellite navigation system launched], China Daily Europe, December 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki/&amp;gt;. During 2012, 5 additional satellites (1 GEO satellites and 4 MEO satellites) were launched increasing to 14 the number of satellites of the constellation. Until 2020, the system is going to launch the remaining satellites and [[BeiDou_Future_and_Evolutions|evolve]] towards global navigation capability.&amp;lt;ref name=BEIDOU_MUNICH_2011&amp;gt;China Satellite Navigation Office, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Development of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;China Daily&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[BeiDou_General_Introduction|&lt;/del&gt;BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS)&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/del&gt;, also known as BeiDou-2&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS&amp;gt;[http://www.filasinternational.eu/sidereus-project/pdf/02.pdf Compass/BeiDou Status], Jun Shen, BNStar Navigation Technology &amp;amp; System, Inc., Rome (Italy), June 11, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki&amp;gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_WORLDWIDE&amp;gt;[http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3590 BeiDou China’s Rapidly Emerging GNSS, InsideGNSS, May/June 2014]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), also known as BeiDou-2&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS&amp;gt;[http://www.filasinternational.eu/sidereus-project/pdf/02.pdf Compass/BeiDou Status], Jun Shen, BNStar Navigation Technology &amp;amp; System, Inc., Rome (Italy), June 11, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki&amp;gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_WORLDWIDE&amp;gt;[http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3590 BeiDou China’s Rapidly Emerging GNSS, InsideGNSS, May/June 2014]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the upgrade of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BDS System was done in 2004 and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the upgrade of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BDS System was done in 2004 and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Compass &lt;/del&gt;Navigation Satellite System (&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;CNSS&lt;/del&gt;), also &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;named &lt;/del&gt;BeiDou-2&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Chinese_today&lt;/del&gt;&amp;gt;[http://www.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;sinodefence&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;com&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;space&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;satellite&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;compass-beidou2&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;asp &lt;/del&gt;Compass &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Satellite &lt;/del&gt;Navigation System (&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Beidou&lt;/del&gt;), &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;on Sinodefence.com, updated on August 6th&lt;/del&gt;, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;2011.] &lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&amp;lt;ref name=Chinese_today/&amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS_Wiki&lt;/del&gt;&amp;gt;[http://&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;en&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;org&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Compass_navigation_system COMPASS Navigation system in Wikipedia&lt;/del&gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[BeiDou_General_Introduction|BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Navigation Satellite System (&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BDS&lt;/ins&gt;)&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;, also &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;known as &lt;/ins&gt;BeiDou-2&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BDS_STATUS&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;gt;[http://www.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;filasinternational&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;eu&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;sidereus-project&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;02&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;pdf &lt;/ins&gt;Compass&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;/BeiDou Status], Jun Shen, BNStar &lt;/ins&gt;Navigation &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Technology &amp;amp; &lt;/ins&gt;System&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, Inc., Rome &lt;/ins&gt;(&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Italy&lt;/ins&gt;), &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;June 11&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;2009&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, &lt;/ins&gt;is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BDS_STATUS/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=BeiDou_Wiki&amp;gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;/ins&gt;that will be capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BDS_WORLDWIDE&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;gt;[http://&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;www&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;insidegnss&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;com/node&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;3590 BeiDou China’s Rapidly Emerging GNSS, InsideGNSS, May&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;June 2014&lt;/ins&gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the upgrade of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou-2/CNSS &lt;/del&gt;was done in 2004&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;ref name=Chinese_today/&amp;gt; &lt;/del&gt;and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Chinese_today&lt;/del&gt;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the upgrade of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BDS System &lt;/ins&gt;was done in 2004 and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BDS_STATUS&lt;/ins&gt;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As of December 2011, the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;system was officially announced to provide Initial Operational Service providing initial passive positioning navigation and timing services for the whole Asia-Pacific region with a constellation of 10 satellites (5 GEO satellites and 5 IGSO satellites)&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot;&amp;gt;[http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-12/28/content_14343656.htm Satellite navigation system launched], China Daily Europe, December 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS_Wiki &lt;/del&gt;/&amp;gt;. During 2012, 5 additional satellites (1 GEO satellites and 4 MEO satellites) were launched increasing to 14 the number of satellites of the constellation. Until 2020, the system is going to launch the remaining satellites and [[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS_Future_and_Evolutions&lt;/del&gt;|evolve]] towards global navigation capability.&amp;lt;ref name=BEIDOU_MUNICH_2011&amp;gt;China Satellite Navigation Office, &#039;&#039;Development of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System&#039;&#039;, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As of December 2011, the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;system was officially announced to provide Initial Operational Service providing initial passive positioning navigation and timing services for the whole Asia-Pacific region with a constellation of 10 satellites (5 GEO satellites and 5 IGSO satellites)&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot;&amp;gt;[http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-12/28/content_14343656.htm Satellite navigation system launched], China Daily Europe, December 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou_Wiki&lt;/ins&gt;/&amp;gt;. During 2012, 5 additional satellites (1 GEO satellites and 4 MEO satellites) were launched increasing to 14 the number of satellites of the constellation. Until 2020, the system is going to launch the remaining satellites and [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou_Future_and_Evolutions&lt;/ins&gt;|evolve]] towards global navigation capability.&amp;lt;ref name=BEIDOU_MUNICH_2011&amp;gt;China Satellite Navigation Office, &#039;&#039;Development of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System&#039;&#039;, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Related Articles==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Related Articles==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Beidou_navigation_system.png‎|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS/&lt;/del&gt;BeiDou Logo|200px|thumb]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Beidou_navigation_system.png‎|BeiDou Logo|200px|thumb]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The following articles include further information about different important topics related to a &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS&lt;/del&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The following articles include further information about different important topics related to a &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou&lt;/ins&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Architecture|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Architecture]]:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Architecture|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Architecture]]:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;**[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Space Segment|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Space Segment]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;**[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Space Segment|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Space Segment]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;**[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Ground Segment|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Ground Segment]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;**[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Ground Segment|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Ground Segment]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;**[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;User Segment|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;User Segment]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;**[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;User Segment|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;User Segment]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Receivers|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Receivers]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Receivers|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Receivers]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Services|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Services]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Services|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Services]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Performances|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Performances]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Performances|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Performances]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Future and Evolutions|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS &lt;/del&gt;Future and Evolutions]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Future and Evolutions|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BeiDou &lt;/ins&gt;Future and Evolutions]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Filipe.Pelica</name></author>
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		<title>Timo.Kouwenhoven at 10:59, 26 May 2014</title>
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		<updated>2014-05-26T10:59:57Z</updated>

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;COMPASS&lt;/del&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BEIDOU&lt;/ins&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Timo.Kouwenhoven</name></author>
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		<title>Timo.Kouwenhoven: moved COMPASS General Introduction to BeiDou General Introduction</title>
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		<updated>2014-05-26T10:59:15Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;moved &lt;a href=&quot;/navipedia/index.php?title=COMPASS_General_Introduction&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;COMPASS General Introduction&quot;&gt;COMPASS General Introduction&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;/navipedia/index.php?title=BeiDou_General_Introduction&quot; title=&quot;BeiDou General Introduction&quot;&gt;BeiDou General Introduction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 10:59, 26 May 2014&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-notice&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mw-diff-empty&quot;&gt;(No difference)&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Timo.Kouwenhoven</name></author>
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		<title>Timo.Kouwenhoven at 10:52, 26 May 2014</title>
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		<updated>2014-05-26T10:52:14Z</updated>

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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 10:52, 26 May 2014&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{Article Infobox2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{Article Infobox2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Timo.Kouwenhoven</name></author>
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		<title>Teresa.Ferreira at 17:46, 28 September 2012</title>
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		<updated>2012-09-28T17:46:38Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 17:46, 28 September 2012&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l10&quot;&gt;Line 10:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the upgrade of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BeiDou-2/CNSS was done in 2004&amp;lt;ref name=Chinese_today/&amp;gt; and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=Chinese_today/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although the upgrade of its regional navigation system towards a global solution started in 1997, the formal approval by the Government of the development and deployment of BeiDou-2/CNSS was done in 2004&amp;lt;ref name=Chinese_today/&amp;gt; and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the [[GPS General Introduction|GPS]], [[GLONASS General Introduction|GLONASS]] or [[GALILEO General Introduction|Galileo]] systems.&amp;lt;ref name=Chinese_today/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As of December 2011, the COMPASS system was officially announced to provide Initial Operational Service providing initial passive positioning navigation and timing services for the whole Asia-Pacific region with a constellation of 10 satellites (5 GEO satellites and 5 IGSO satellites)&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot;&amp;gt;[http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-12/28/content_14343656.htm Satellite navigation system launched], China Daily Europe, December 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=COMPASS_Wiki /&amp;gt;. During 2012, 5 additional satellites (1 GEO satellites and 4 MEO satellites) &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;where &lt;/del&gt;launched increasing to 14 the number of satellites of the constellation. Until 2020, the system is going to launch the remaining satellites and [[COMPASS_Future_and_Evolutions|evolve]] towards global navigation capability.&amp;lt;ref name=BEIDOU_MUNICH_2011&amp;gt;China Satellite Navigation Office, &#039;&#039;Development of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System&#039;&#039;, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As of December 2011, the COMPASS system was officially announced to provide Initial Operational Service providing initial passive positioning navigation and timing services for the whole Asia-Pacific region with a constellation of 10 satellites (5 GEO satellites and 5 IGSO satellites)&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot;&amp;gt;[http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-12/28/content_14343656.htm Satellite navigation system launched], China Daily Europe, December 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=COMPASS_Wiki /&amp;gt;. During 2012, 5 additional satellites (1 GEO satellites and 4 MEO satellites) &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;were &lt;/ins&gt;launched increasing to 14 the number of satellites of the constellation. Until 2020, the system is going to launch the remaining satellites and [[COMPASS_Future_and_Evolutions|evolve]] towards global navigation capability.&amp;lt;ref name=BEIDOU_MUNICH_2011&amp;gt;China Satellite Navigation Office, &#039;&#039;Development of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System&#039;&#039;, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;China Daily&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Teresa.Ferreira</name></author>
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