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35th and 36th Beidou navigation satellites launched successfully
2018-10-25 21:23

The 35th and 36th Beidou navigation satellites were recently launched with one rocket at Xichang satellite launch center. These two satellites will operate on a medium-earth orbit. They are the eleventh and twelfth BDS-3 networking satellites.

 

The successful launch of the Beidou 3 experimental satellites in 2015 has fully proved the key technologies of the global network. Having made initial success, the Beidou system accelerated the efforts of global development. November of 2017 witnessed the first launch of two satellites with one rocket. Since then, four more such launches have been made possible. The Beidou system is making concrete progress toward the goals of serving countries along Belt and Road by the end of 2018.

 

The Beidou system has done a great job, bringing tangible benefit to the local people.Nowadays, the Beidou system has been confirmed by UN as one of the four major suppliers of global satellite navigation systems, with the other three systems being GPS from the US, GLONASS from Russia and Galileo system from the EU.

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