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 expects to launch the next generation ... help it vie with the US-backed Global Positioning System (GPS) for international clients. BeiDou’s developers anticipate “breakthroughs ...

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 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 ...

China applies the principle that ... CNSS would provide global navigation services, similarly to the GPS, GLONASS or Galileo systems. The Beidou Phase III system includes the migration of ...

The observatory’s contributions are expected to play a vital role in mitigating the impacts of extreme weather events and ...

BEIJING--China said Friday its Beidou Navigation Satellite System that emulates the U.S. Global Positioning System will be completed with the launch of its final two satellites in the first half ...

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?

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 ...

Researchers have created an atomic clock that can be taken into war zones, and it could change the future of military combat ...

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 ...

The third iteration of the Beidou Navigation Satellite ... to Russia’s GLONASS and the European Galileo systems, as well as America’s GPS. China’s space program has developed rapidly over ...