Article: China-made satellite navigation system to serve Olympics

China-made satellite navigation system to serve Olympics

BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- A leading engineer for China's indigenous satellite navigation system said the new system would be used in guiding traffic and monitoring sports venues during theBeijing Olympics in summer 2008.

Ran Chengqi, deputy director of China Satellite Navigation Engineering Center, said the Compass Navigation Satellite System, which consists of five positioning satellites orbiting the Earth, will help alleviate traffic problems during the Olympics by providing detailed positioning information to individual drivers.

The home-grown navigation system, coded as Beidou in the Chinese pronunciation for the compass, can not ...

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