Xue Jianguo, a former executive at China’s largest arms manufacturer who later helped push for civilian use of the BeiDou ...

State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a white paper titled "China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System" on Thursday. 中国积极培育北斗系统的应用 ...

China has ambitions for its rapidly expanding Beidou satellite navigation system to serve the whole world, not just Asia, but will it really be able to rival the well-established - and US-owned ...

The industry, which centres on the BeiDou navigation system – China’s equivalent of the US Global Positioning System (GPS) – has covered a wide range of sectors, from chips and devices to ...

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS ...

China is planning to develop the next-generation BeiDou system that is technologically more advanced, functionally more powerful and offers higher quality services. An experimental satellite of ...

China has successfully put into orbit the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 navigation system, further advancing the country as a major power in space. Tuesday's launch will allow China to no longer ...

China has set a target of launching 100 space missions in 2024 as it bids to rival the U.S. in a new space race. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced in a press conference ...

The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is China's version of GPS. Uniquely, it's made up of two separate satellite constellations and it's been claimed that, with post-processing, it's accurate to ...

Hunan province aims to further enhance its technological development and self-reliance this year by achieving breakthroughs ...

MOSCOW, September 27. /TASS/. Russia and China have signed contracts for the deployment of Russia’s GLONASS stations in China and China’s Beidou system stations in Russia, the state ...

The first version of Beidou, meaning “Big Dipper,” was decommissioned in 2012. Plans call for a smarter, more accessible and more integrated system with Beidou at its core, to come online by 2035.