Beidou Navigation System

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  • GPS satellite
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    …GPS service known as the BeiDou Navigation System. In 2007 China began launching a series of 14 second-generation satellites, known as BeiDou-2, or Compass, to provide services in China. A third-generation constellation of 30 satellites, BeiDou-3, was completed in 2020 and provides global service.

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