Liu Fang (left) and Wang Feixue. Photo: cpc.people.com.cn
Asia Times: China’s precision navigation system to use 30 satellites
BeiDou-3 will be able to achieve accuracy 'within millimeters', 10 times as precise as GPS, according to previous media reports
China is building a military-grade navigation system called BeiDou-3 that will have global coverage through more than 30 satellites, according to an academic speaking on the sidelines of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
In 1995, China started to develop its first BeiDou Navigation Satellite System as an alternative to the Global Positioning System in use by the United States, Dr Wang Feixue, a professor at the College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, said at a media briefing on Sunday evening.
“Our satellite program kicked off 20 years later than foreign countries’. We have not yet achieved full global coverage at the moment,” Wang said. “There is still a long way for us to go.”
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WNU Editor: China is still far away from having such a system, but for the Chinese military this has become a vital national security priority for them. My prediction .... it will be operational before we know it.
3 comments:
China has such an inferiority complex it is getting annoying. We get it, you can make stuff. But do you guys "get" that the US invented GPS like several decades ago and shared that technology with the world, and you come half a century later to boast? LOLLOL and that considering you guys are 1.5bn people and have stolen in the trillions from the US but still need to brag.. omg grow up
I have no doubt china will catch up with US. Other countries did it in some fields. But there is a huge difference between that and making a gap. As long as you have to "copy" or going with "known technology", that's fast. But when you face the "wall" of the unknown and create new concept, that's a different story. Freedom of communication, of exchange, of understanding opposite point of view, of almost every thing is the deep root of creativity....That's not the way China is ready to allow it. China will have a big problem to understand that.
Jac, I really don't think so. My criticism towards China is not meant to disrespect their creative abilities (even under different political systems. .it has actually changed quite a bit and in fact the lower restrictions and "lower legal threshold" (government sanctioned theft of IP and learning from it) helps in creativity, even if it might not be 100% original - everyone knows in creativity everyone copies from everyone else. .it's just the theft and bragging and human rights violations that put me off lol).
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