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January 03, 2014

China to upgrade homegrown GPS to improve accuracy
Beijing (UPI) Dec 30, 2013
China says it will have 30 satellites in its Beidou navigation system by 2020 to improve accuracy to within inches to better compete with the U.S.GPS. The Beidou network, with 16 satellites serving the Asia-Pacific region, currently has an accuracy of about 15 feet but Chinese officials say they want to upgrade it to compete with the U.S. global positioning system, the most widely used worldwide, ZDNet reported Monday. Six satellites were added to the system last year; the network has be ... read more

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