China to finish Beidou contender to GPS with new launches
China said Friday it's Beidou Navigation Satellite System that imitates the U.S. Global Positioning System will have competed with the launch of its last two satellites in the first half of one year from now.
Project director Ran Chengqi told correspondents that the core of the positioning system was finished for the current month with the launch extra satellites carrying its complete constellation to 24.
That was up from 19 the prior year, making it one of rising space power China's most complex projects.
Ran depicted the system at a rare news conference as having "high-performance indicators, new technology systems, high localization, mass production networking and a wide range of users."
"Before June 2020, we plan to launch two more satellites into geostationary orbit an...