Beijing: China has launched successfully a satellite, the 10th one for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network known as Beidou to rival the American Global Position System (GPS) and Russian GLONASS. The system will also end China’s dependence on US GPS system.
The satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the southwestern Sichuan province and with this the basic structure of the Beidou system has now been established, and engineers are now conducting comprehensive system test and evaluation, said authorities.
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