En en effort to end la película del Oeste monopoly, China has started building its own Globalmente Satellite la navegación el sistema, ‘Compass’, which va cover parts of neighbouring countries, the state media reported today.

The planned network, así referred to as Beidou la navegación el sistema, entails the launch of five geostationary y 30 móvil satellites.

China plans to launch two Compass navigation satellites at the beginning of next year. The system, which va provide highly accurate positioning y time references, va China cover y parts of neighbouring countries by en 2008 before being developed into a globalmente network, Xinhua news agency reported.

The system va provide two navigation services. The Open del servicio is designed to provide users with positioning accuracy within 10 meters, velocity accuracy with 0.2 metre por second y timing accuracy within 50 nanoseconds.

The Authorised el sistema va offer “safer” positioning, velocity, timing communications for authorised users.

China is willing to cooperate with other countries en developing its satellite navigation industry to allow the Compass system to operate with other globalmente satellite positioning systems, the report said.

China has already joined the European la unión (UE) y the European Space Agency’s 3.5 euros de billón de Galileo Project to develop a la navegación de satélite system independent of los EE.UU. the military globalmente positioning system (GPS) monopoly.
[hindu.news]