08 February 2018
The quick positioning platform of China's Beidou navigation and positioning system is serving more than 200 countries and regions around the globe, China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (NORINCO) announced 08 February. The location service platform of Qianxun Spatial Intelligence Inc, a company using Beidou services that was co-founded by NORINCO and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has more than 90 million customers, the corporation said at its yearly work meeting.
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09 February 2018
Beijing Normal University (BNU) and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) on 09 February signed the cooperation agreement and released the plan to develop the polar observation microsat (BNU-1). The microsat BNU-1 will be jointly developed by the BNU, CGWIC and Shenzhen Aerospace Dongfanghong Development Ltd. It will be the first small satellite for scientific experiment a Chinese university would have developed using remote sensing, to study the polar climate and for environmental monitoring.
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12 February 2018
On 10 February, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the military base of Xichang satellite launch site in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday, ahead of the launch of BeiDou-3 satellites. Two BeiDou-3 satellites were sent into space on 12 February. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected the preparation work for the launch while visiting the site's command center. He talked with the scientists and technicians, asking them about their research, work and lives. They were told to keep pursuing precision and perfection to ensure the success of the launch.
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12 February 2018
China sent two navigation satellites into orbit on a single carrier rocket for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) on 12 February. The twin satellites, which form a network with four previously launched BeiDou-3 satellites, were the fifth and sixth satellites in the BeiDou-3 family. They entered orbit more than three hours after the launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. All of the BeiDou satellites were launched from Xichang and all of the missions were successful, said Dong Chongqing, Party secretary of the launch center.
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