Providing real-time location data, the global positioning system (GPS), which has both civil and military uses, is the largest and most reliable direction finder in the world.
Since the US Air Force launched the very first satellite to make global observations of the Earth’s oceans into space in 1978, the GPS network gas dominated the market. Several other countries established similar networks over the years, but remained far behind the American GPS system. Russia’s GLONASS, China’s Beidou and the European Space Agency’s Galileo networks tried to keep up with the US, but were unable to dislodge GPS from the top spot.
However, in the last couple of years, China’s Beidou network has been making rapid progress and is now on its way to becoming the largest satellite network. Having launched more than 40 satellites into space, China has now outstripped GPS, which runs on 31 satellites, while Russia’s GLONASS operates 24. China has its sights set on “serving the entire globe by the year 2020” with “100 times more accuracy.”
According to China Satellite Navigation Office director Ran Chengqi, “It will be a change from 10 meters, to decimeters, to centimeters. For example, if we hail a cab with a mobile phone with such accuracy, we don’t need to tell the driver where we stand, because the car will arrive directly at our feet.” Considering these developments, it seems the world is about to witness a new “Star Wars” race between the US and China. And this is only the beginning for Beidou as China ultimately plans to establish a satellite system for the the nearly 64 countries that are part of its mega-project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The Beidou network first became operational in Pakistan last year under the umbrella of the BRI. Under an agreement with Pakistan’s national space agency, the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, a ground-based augmentation system was installed by the Beijing-based Unistrong Science and Technology Co in Karachi, where it has had five base stations and a processing center since 2014. UniStrong’s Zhang Ruifeng said the full Beidou system, which has a 2-centimetre accuracy rate, had been installed and it can later be extended to 5 millimetres when it completely covers Pakistan. Pakistan was the first country to sign an official agreement with China on BDS. Strategically, it may be advantageous for Pakistan’s defense and security mechanism to avail itself of dual navigational layers.
BDS will be establishing more base stations and conducting scientific and technical research as part of BRI economic diplomacy
Planning to expand onwards to Thailand, Sri Lanka and other countries in Southeast Asia, the BDS company will be establishing more base stations and conducting scientific and technical research as part of BRI economic diplomacy. Outlining the main aims, Professor Li Deren of Wuhan University said, “Our priority is to expand BDS from China to the frontline of the Belt and Road Initiative, and in this Optics Valley, Beidou is a pioneer.”
With more than 80% of it now complete, Beidou has progressed rapidly as 18 satellites were sent into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province in 2018. Such an intensive launch program was possible because the BDS-3 satellite team fine-tuned the process. Costing about $12 billion, the Beidou network can bring in a lot of revenue if it proves to be more accurate than GPS, and most smartphones now support both GPS and Beidou.
Meanwhile, China’s NavInfo is supplying Tesla and BMW with navigation tech and expects to sell 15 million Beidou-linked chips by 2020, and China’s satellite navigation business may exceed $57 billion by that time, according to the Chinese news service Xinhua. As per a report by Grand View Research, Inc, global positioning systems will be worth US $146.4 billion by 2025 as the demand for location-based services is constantly on the rise, ranging from map locations and food deliveries to the navigation of military aircraft and naval ships.
Recently, the 13th United Nations International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) was convened in China, and representatives from 16 countries, including the EU, US and Russia, discussed the modalities for increasing the compatibility of their satellites. As China is the second-biggest global economy, most manufacturers have started modifying their products to make them operable under both networks to safeguard their business interests.
Undoubtedly, Beidou could potentially enhance China’s clout and provide it with added leverage in global organizations and alliances. Not stopping at launching 40 satellites into space, China plans to add 11 more in 2019. Additionally, a lunar probe, Chang’e 4, is to be launched into space next month, while a Mars probe and rover await liftoff in 2020. Summing it up aptly, Andrew Dempster from the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research observed, “It is classic space-race sort of stuff.”
Beitou is catching up, while Moon back landing is leading, and Mars probe is ready to put into race. And space station will be in place in 2022, may be the only one in operation by 2024. It based on long time planning, started in 1958. US and Russia look in on and off game cycle. It has been 40 years since US landed persons on Moon. Now Trump want US to lead in space and militrize it, but just see how disorderly his move to build a wall , much more small and short than the great wall 2000 years ago. He needs study the way the Qin Emperor organize the one of the seven miracles of the world history.
Beitou is catching up, while Moon back landing is leading, and Mars probe is ready to put into race. And space station will be in place in 2022, may be the only one in operation by 2024. It based on long time planning, started in 1958. US and Russia look in on and off game cycle. It has been 40 years since US landed persons on Moon. Now Trump want US to lead in space and militrize it, but just see how disorderly his move to build a wall , much more small and short than the great wall 2000 years ago. He needs study the way the Qin Emperor organize the one of the seven miracles of the world history.
Forget about Trump …every time he opens he’s mouth …the worst things happen to ordinary citizens in the USA ( just ask gov.workers !!) or the World get offended or just laugh !!!
Forget about Trump …every time he opens he’s mouth …the worst things happen to ordinary citizens in the USA ( just ask gov.workers !!) or the World get offended or just laugh !!!
That is what happens when China was excluded by the U.S. when the International Space Station was launched in 1998 when virtually every industrialized nation was invited. China was forced to go alone. Today China, unlike the U.S., has invited everyone to participate with its historical landing on the backside of the moon. Chinese advances are for mankind.
That is what happens when China was excluded by the U.S. when the International Space Station was launched in 1998 when virtually every industrialized nation was invited. China was forced to go alone. Today China, unlike the U.S., has invited everyone to participate with its historical landing on the backside of the moon. Chinese advances are for mankind.
US steps on the moon is a leap for Mankind while the Western narratives paint the baby Xi steps on the moon as a threat to Mankind.
US steps on the moon is a leap for Mankind while the Western narratives paint the baby Xi steps on the moon as a threat to Mankind.
** CNSA deserved the accolade ***
Again, let’s not count our chickens until all of the eggs are hatched…
I mean there does exist this “chance probability” that Yutu “MAY NOT” (Repeat, MAY NOT.) really be as unique as we like to believe of it https://youtu.be/n9EMcyfGMDA — if you really come to thinking about all of the probabilities…
Example: doesn’t it strike us as odd that, soon as the Apollo program comes to a halt to never be heard from again that, everything else “SPACE” is all about the ISS, about (Space Shuttles with a cargo hole in it the size of a semi), about the need for a Canadarm, and, about space debris https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/01/Space_debris_around_Earth that resembles none other but a humanoid mining operations?
“In other words, will Yutu shock mankind with a secret that’s so been kept under lid that it’s something that seem humanly impossible if it’s not out of the realms of human imagination?”
Who knows, for example, if the Chinese might not have over the last decades, scooped up sufficient enough of an amounts of rare earth moon direct, in the form of space debris, which practically given her the advantage to come up with its own Area 51 technologies practically overnight? I mean space debris you know and space debris are free for the taking. That could, probably, be where the Canadarm and the cargo hole in the Space Shuttle comes into play.
As for the technology to achieve those aims: serious speaking, technologies which was Apollo 11 to 17 may all in fact be real. Very very real. IMO, such advanced technology was already in existence, in use even, as pics of Kruschev’s nukes in the Island of Cuba is a testament.
“Yutu, therefore, and in my opinion, is probably not that unique and that the chance probability that actual (but highly covert) mining operations in the moon does exist.”
*** All scientists and all involved should be praised ***
What I mean when I said don’t rock the boat:
Already, overwhelmed by “ENVY”, Yutu bashers are flocking in droves to Youtube https://youtu.be/dIT1z1CaB8Y in efforts to deny the Chinese credit for this accomplishment so don’t expect any hugs, kisses, and applauses from those who is driven by ENVY.
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** CNSA deserved the accolade ***
Again, let’s not count our chickens until all of the eggs are hatched…
I mean there does exist this “chance probability” that Yutu “MAY NOT” (Repeat, MAY NOT.) really be as unique as we like to believe of it https://youtu.be/n9EMcyfGMDA — if you really come to thinking about all of the probabilities…
Example: doesn’t it strike us as odd that, soon as the Apollo program comes to a halt to never be heard from again that, everything else “SPACE” is all about the ISS, about (Space Shuttles with a cargo hole in it the size of a semi), about the need for a Canadarm, and, about space debris https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/01/Space_debris_around_Earth that resembles none other but a humanoid mining operations?
“In other words, will Yutu shock mankind with a secret that’s so been kept under lid that it’s something that seem humanly impossible if it’s not out of the realms of human imagination?”
Who knows, for example, if the Chinese might not have over the last decades, scooped up sufficient enough of an amounts of rare earth moon direct, in the form of space debris, which practically given her the advantage to come up with its own Area 51 technologies practically overnight? I mean space debris you know and space debris are free for the taking. That could, probably, be where the Canadarm and the cargo hole in the Space Shuttle comes into play.
As for the technology to achieve those aims: serious speaking, technologies which was Apollo 11 to 17 may all in fact be real. Very very real. IMO, such advanced technology was already in existence, in use even, as pics of Kruschev’s nukes in the Island of Cuba is a testament.
“Yutu, therefore, and in my opinion, is probably not that unique and that the chance probability that actual (but highly covert) mining operations in the moon does exist.”
*** All scientists and all involved should be praised ***
What I mean when I said don’t rock the boat:
Already, overwhelmed by “ENVY”, Yutu bashers are flocking in droves to Youtube https://youtu.be/dIT1z1CaB8Y in efforts to deny the Chinese credit for this accomplishment so don’t expect any hugs, kisses, and applauses from those who is driven by ENVY.
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You would have had nothing without the treason of the Clintons…
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-foundation-scandal-echoes-clinton-china-controversy-from-1998?fbclid=IwAR2NptFZQO7EE9WbhDo8o89SLImy6tiZ6Pd56Bu58APwy53e__15_5kHLew
You would have had nothing without the treason of the Clintons…
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-foundation-scandal-echoes-clinton-china-controversy-from-1998?fbclid=IwAR2NptFZQO7EE9WbhDo8o89SLImy6tiZ6Pd56Bu58APwy53e__15_5kHLew
Thank you for honestly sharing the difficulties India is facing.
Only by acknlowedging our weakness and failures, can we hope to overcome them. It is sad to hear of the loss in leadership of such a leader in your MoD… I hope you both continue to remain active in the defense and protection of your country from any that might attempt to subvert you.
As you can tell, America is also having it’s own difficulties, but we are working through it also and things are changing for the better. More and even greater difficulties are ahead, but don’t give up on us; we won’t give up on you.
Cheers. 🙂
DRS
Thank you for honestly sharing the difficulties India is facing.
Only by acknlowedging our weakness and failures, can we hope to overcome them. It is sad to hear of the loss in leadership of such a leader in your MoD… I hope you both continue to remain active in the defense and protection of your country from any that might attempt to subvert you.
As you can tell, America is also having it’s own difficulties, but we are working through it also and things are changing for the better. More and even greater difficulties are ahead, but don’t give up on us; we won’t give up on you.
Cheers. 🙂
DRS
Jajajaja,very funny
Jajajaja,very funny