Today’s problems involving transportation for equipment and personnel led to a wider use of the GPS. This is the reason why Chinahas in plan to have a working GPS ystem (which will include an encrypted channel as well) covering all of Asiain less than 2 years.
In spite of the 2010 deadline specified, Japanese officials state that there has been no talk about inter operability between the two nations’ satellite systems so far. At the Toulouse Space Show, ICGNSS (International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems) proved that China’s Compass/Beidou system is fully compatible with US GPS, European Galileo or Russian Glonass global navigation
systems.
However a problem may arise from the fact that three satellites from the Japanese Quazi Zenith Satellite Systems involved in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, mightinterfere with China’s project. The ICGNSS states that over 120 navigation satellites will be orbiting Earth after these Chinese and European ones will be added together.
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