News from the 10th China Satellite Navigation Conference
22 May 2019
China will send six to eight new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space this year, according to the ongoing tenth China Satellite Navigation Conference.
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China will publish an international English journal called "Satellite Navigation". The journal is coordinated by the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Springer Nature. The journal is open to submission and is expected to be published officially in October. The journal will be published in an open-access format and can be obtained free of charge once published.
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The output value of China's satellite navigation industry is expected to surpass 400 billion yuan (about 57.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2020, sources at the ongoing 10th China Satellite Navigation Conference said on 23 May.
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Customized satellite services set to grow
22 May 2019
China will offer customized data services to more countries for disaster prevention through its Fengyun meteorological satellites along the Belt and Road, said a senior official of the China Meteorological Administration's National Satellite Meteorological Center. The services will be provided based on results of a survey of 81 nations. By the end of April, 22 countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Libya and Sudan, had responded to the survey.
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China's Beidou 3 satellites get new chip
21 May 2019
A new chip for China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has been unveiled. Called "Lyra-II," the high-precision baseband chip, reportedly supporting all civilian signals from the Beidou 3 satellites, is said to be the first of its kind in the world, according to the chip's developer Beijing UniStrong. The company holds the independent intellectual property rights for the new chip, which it spent more than 50 million yuan over around two years developing.
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China Satellite Navigation Conference opens in Beijing
22 May 2019
The three-day conference features seminars, academic exchanges and exhibitions, inviting experts from both home and abroad to exchange ideas on key technologies, innovation applications as well as industry development. China Satellite Navigation Conference is one of three major international satellite navigation conferences. The annual conference has been held in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou since 2010.
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