Tunisia to host 2nd forum on China-Arab BeiDou cooperation by Staff Writers Beijing (XNA) Nov 12, 2018
The second forum on BeiDou cooperation between China and Arab countries will be held in the first half of 2019 in Tunisia, sources at the 13th Meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) said. Ma Jiaqing, deputy director of the China Satellite Navigation Office, said the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) will provide services to countries and regions involved in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative by the end of 2018. By around 2020, BDS will have gone global. The first forum on BeiDou cooperation between China and Arab countries was held in 2017 in Shanghai. In April 2018, the China-Arab States BDS/GNSS Center was officially inaugurated in Tunisia. "We will push forward the BDS system serving Arab countries in the future," Ma said. The ICG aims to strengthen coordination and cooperation in satellite navigation, as well as promote its global application. China became a member of the ICG in September 2007. The country's BDS is recognized globally along with the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), the EU's Galileo Positioning System and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). Source: Xinhua News
China successfully launches 41st BeiDou Navigation System Satellite Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2018 China successfully launched the BeiDou-3 satellite, the 41st satellite to join the nation's BeiDou navigation system, atop the Long March 3B carrier rocket, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Friday. The lift-off took place at 11:56 p.m. (15:56 GMT) on Thursday from the Xichang space center in the southwest of China. The satellite will be connected to the navigation system after undergoing a number of checks. The satellite is the 17th Beidou-3 satellite wit ... read more
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