China's space agency has launched a new navigation satellite from the Xichang space base plane in south China's Sichuan province.China successfully launched a satellite named Compass G2 in geostationary transfer orbit or a GTO at 1616 GMT (12:16 pm EDT). This satellite will be used to increase roaming capabilities tracker technology (GPS) China called Beidou Navigation System.
As reported by Softpedia, Friday (17/04/2009), GTO has a position with the recent high of 22.250 miles points and low points of 125 miles. Once gliding, Compass G2 moves toward orbit with an altitude of up to 22 300 miles.
This new satellite launch align China with European countries, America and Russia, a renowned expert in creating a sophisticated satellite system for the benefit of location search system.
State officials say his conviction that the Beidou Navigation System will be able to work with systems that have been built earlier. If the launch is a perfect mission, this satellite will enable China to have seamless coverage worldwide.
China's great hope will save this system. They hoped that by 2015 this satellite will be competing with GPS (Global Positioning System) belonging to the United States, which dominated the car industry, cell phones, PDAs and other industries that use the GPS application. In addition, the Beidou Navigation System is also expected to compete with the Galileo Positioning System belongs to the countries in Europe, as well as the Global Navigation Satellite (Glonass) belong to russia.
In addition, this system can be used for various purposes such as public safety, forest fire monitoring, meteorological and land use potential oil refinery.
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