China says its Beidou system now fully operational, to challenge US’s GPS

As featured in The Hindustan Times


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According to state media, it was the 30th satellite to be launched as part of the third-generation series – 59 have been launched in all since the 2000s. “The civil signal from Beidou is no better than GPS or Galileo,” said Alexandra Stickings, a research analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, a Britain-based think-tank told Reuters news agency in June. India is developing its own navigation satellite system called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.