China Launches Positioning Satellite: 11th Launch for China’s BeiDou (Compass) Navigation System
China launched the eleventh satellite for its new global positioning system, which is analogous to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS systems. The Chinese satellite network is called the BeiDou, or Compass, Navigation System. The first ten satellites provide coverage only for the Chinese region, but a total of 35 satellites scheduled to be online [...]