China Launches Another Navigation Satellite
China expects to have as many as 15 timing and navigation spacecraft in orbit by 2012 for regional coverage, and a constellation of “more than 30 satellites” by 2022 for worldwide coverage, according to Sun Jiadong, head of the Beidou (Compass) satnav program. China Daily cited a television...
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