{"id":65130,"date":"2018-05-29T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-beidou-3-satellite-network-up-and-running-state-officials-confirm\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T23:17:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:17:15","slug":"chinas-beidou-3-satellite-network-up-and-running-state-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-beidou-3-satellite-network-up-and-running-state-officials-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s BeiDou-3 Satellite Network Up and Running, State Officials Confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The first eight of 35 planned BeiDou-3 satellites have formed a functioning network, as first reported by Maritime Executive, and have a global positioning accuracy of five meters, according to BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, China\u2019s state-owned satellite company. Around 35 satellites are intended to provide global services upon completion in 2020, while China this year aims to launch 10 more BeiDou-3 Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites and a Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite. The global navigation satellite constellation includes GPS (U.S.), Glonass (Russia), Galileo (Europe) and China\u2019s BeiDou, including BeiDou-2. The BeiDou-3 will also provide remote sensing, internet, big data and cloud computing services in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at Maritime Executive &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>In related news, China intends to launch two backup satellites for BeiDou-2 within the next two years, according to the Xinhua News Agency. Intended to improve performance, the satellites will ensure continuous operations of the system. BeiDou-2 uses 14 navigation satellites, offering positioning, timing and SMS services in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at Xinhua News Agency &gt;&gt; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first eight of 35 planned BeiDou-3 satellites have formed a functioning network, as first reported by Maritime Executive, and have a global positioning accuracy of five meters, according to BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, China\u2019s state-owned satellite company. Around 35 satellites are intended to provide global services upon completion in 2020, while China this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}