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BeiDou General Introduction
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| Title | BeiDou General Introduction |
| Edited by | GMV |
| Level | Basic |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
The Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS), also named BeiDou-2,[1] 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.[1][2]
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[1] and it is expected to provide global navigation services by 2020, similarly to the GPS, GLONASS or Galileo systems.[1]
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)[3][2]. Until 2020, the system is going to launch the remaining satellites and evolve towards global navigation capability.[4][3].
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Notes
References
- ^ a b c d Compass Satellite Navigation System (Beidou), on Sinodefence.com, updated on August 6th, 2011.
- ^ a b COMPASS Navigation system in Wikipedia
- ^ a b Satellite navigation system launched, China Daily Europe, December 2011.
- ^ China Satellite Navigation Office, Development of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, 2011.