The launch of the Beidou-3GEO3 was originally for last Tuesday but was delayed over 'technical issues'. FMTNews China
A rocket carrying the last Beidou satellite blasts off from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan yesterday.
The launch of the Beidou-3GEO3 satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre was originally scheduled for last Tuesday but was delayed over unspecified “technical issues”, China’s space agency said. “I think the Beidou-3 system being operational is a big event,” Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told AFP.China started building its global navigation system in the early 1990s to help cars, fishing boats and military tankers navigate using mapping data from the country’s own satellites.
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