Beidou Navigation Satellite System Upsc. China has formally launched full global services of its beidou 3 navigation satellite system bds. The beidou project was formally initiated in 1994. It has started serving china in 2000 and the asia pacific region in 2012.
The launch will mark the completion of the country s domestically developed beidou network one of the four global navigation networks alongside with the us gps russia s glonass and the european union s galileo. India too is building its navigational system called the indian regional navigation satellite system irnss with an operational name of navic.
It has started serving china in 2000 and the asia pacific region in 2012.
Beidou was named after the chinese term for the big dipper. India too is building its navigational system called the indian regional navigation satellite system irnss with an operational name of navic. The system uses a network of satellites and can provide positional accuracies of under ten metres gps provides positioning accuracies of under 2 2 metres. These two satellites represent third phase of bds system beidou 3.
