More launches planned for March and May Four new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have passed tests in orbit and joined the system to provide positioning, navigation and timing services, according to China news service Xinhuanet. The…
Artist’s rendering of a Glonass-K satellite. (Image: ISS-Reshetnev) ISS-Reshetnev Company — the primary GLONASS contractor — has a backlog of orders for navigation satellites up to 2025, according to General Director Nikolay Testoyedov. Testoyedov discussed GLONASS production on Dec. 30,…
China successfully sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 15:22 on Dec. 16. So far, 24 medium earth orbit (MEO) BDS-3 satellites have been successfully sent…
China sends two BeiDou satellites into space a Nov. 23. (Photo: Guo Wenbin/Xinhua) China launched two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 8:55 a.m. Saturday, Nov.…
Photo: Xinhua News Agency China has launched two more BeiDou III satellites. The launch took place on Sunday, March 23, according to the Xinhua News Agency using a Long March 3B rocket which lifted off from the Xichang space center…
Javier Benedicto accepted the Satellites Leadership Award on behalf of Giuliano Gatti of the European Space Agency during GPS World’s 2018 Leadership Dinner and Awards Ceremony. GPS World
China successfully sent twin BeiDou navigation satellites into space on Aug. 25, aboard a single carrier rocket, according to news reports. The satellites are numbers 35 and 36 in the BeiDou navigation constellation. Read more about the launch here. GPS…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an augmented reality view of Galileo satellites in the sky close to ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands. The image comes from a Galileo-focused satnav app for Android smartphones, developed by ESA engineers.…
China will launch 11 more BeiDou-3 satellites by the end of 2018, according to Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency. China has already launched eight BeiDou-3 satellites for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The satellites will…
