Posted on 07/27/2015 11:24:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The satellites are the 18th and 19th launched by China as it develops its domestic navigation system Beidou, or Compass. They take the total number launched this year to three.
Beidou is currently centred on the Asia Pacific region but is slated to cover the whole world by 2020.
"The successful launch marks another solid step in building Beidou into a navigation system with global coverage," the satellite launch centre was quoted by Xinhua as saying.
Beidou—named after the Chinese term for the plough or Big Dipper constellation—was announced in 2012, joining the US's GPS, Russia's GLONASS and European Union's Galileo.
It is already used by several Asian countries including Laos, Pakistan and Thailand.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-07-china-satellites-gps-rival.html#jCp
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Yeah. Right! I ‘wonder’. Uh HUH.
THEY ‘STOLE’ IT. ??
Them WH coffee parties may not have been such a good idea.
Bernie’s WeekEnd at the WH
Actually, they bought it from someone who stole it!
Actually Clinton gave it to them for free, well I’m sure he was paid under the table, but essentially he gave them the technology to not only compete with the U.S. but to undermine the security of the U.S.
All democrats are guilty of conspiring with the enemy, and the rino’s rather then trying to beat them have joined them.
The progressive liberal democrat/rino communist uni-party has full control over our once Free Republic and are dedicated to wiping out any memory of it.
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