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 ...

Future plans promise to support a more accessible and integrated system scheduled to come online by 2035 with BDS at its core. How China's GPS 'rival' Beidou is plotting to go global China opens ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 Japan’s QZSS?

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

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.

NT1021 is a single-chip dual-channel RF front-end consuming a very low power (47 mW typical at 2.1 V) and performing a simultaneous reception of both GPS/Galileo/BeiDou and GLONASS signals. Highly ...

GPS is the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) provided by the United States. Currently, not only the United States (GPS) but also Russia (GLONASS), Europe (Galileo), and China (Beidou) are ...