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China’s Beidou navsat system to go global, report

Submit on Friday, November 3rd, 2006 08:43

China is still working on its own satellite navigation system, Beidou (”Compass”). It will eventually comprise five satellites in GEO and 30 in MEO, Xinhua news agency reports. This is a change to an earlier approach that in essence envisioned a mainly regional instead of the now — apparently — planned global system.

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