Satellites: How China’s Beidou Will Affect the U.S. and the World
By June this year, China will send its final two satellites of the Beidou network into space, thus making the navigation system fully operational. This will take the total number of Beidou satellites orbiting earth to 35, overtaking the U.S. GPS satellite network, which has 24 in orbit. China’s Beidou Back in 2017, a ...