14 February 2018
To ensure the stability of the services, China continues to build and improve the domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System. "We were under great pressure when the research and development program for Beidou's third-generation satellites began in 2009 because all the components of the new-generation model were new to us," Chi Jun, a senior project manager for the China Academy of Space Technology at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. recalled. "We had to develop them on our own and overcome a range of technical difficulties." There were huge differences between the technologies used on the new model and those employed in previous generations, resulting in scientists and engineers spending a lot of time producing and verifying countless solutions, he said.
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