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 ...

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 ...

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

China’s satellite navigation market is expected to grow rapidly in the coming years amid the nation’s efforts to strengthen the footing of its home-grown BeiDou system and expand the overseas ...

While the 62-foot-tall (19 meters), four-stage Ceres-1 can send 880 pounds (400 kilograms) to low Earth orbit (LEO), the ...

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 ...

With the launch Monday of a new pair of navigation satellites, China is one step nearer to achieving global coverage with its navigation satellite system. The launch of Beidou-3M19 (Beidou-52) and ...

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, or ...

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology successfully launched the Smart Dragon-3 (Jielong-3) rocket on January 13, ...

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 ...

And with its hydrogen clock and the world's first inter-satellite Ka link technology, China's BeiDou system can currently provide centimetre-level positioning accuracy, superior to GPS.

BEIJING--China on Tuesday launched the final satellite in its Beidou constellation that emulates the U.S. Global Positioning System, marking a further step in the country’s advance as a major ...