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China activated on July 31 its own satellite navigation system known as BeiDou-3 BDS-3 which will be an alternative to the American GPS and the Russian GLONASS. This has been possible after the last satellite necessary for the operation of the entire system was launched last week. The event held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing was attended by President Xi Jinping.BDS is the result of the efforts of an army of workers mobilized by the party and the nation the hard work of hundreds of thousands of engineers in all areas and the firm support of the public said the projects chief designer. Yang Changfeng. There are three subsystems that make up the BDS which work through 55 satellites in Earth orbit. The first of these the BeiDou-1 was completed in 2000 while the second was launched in 2012. This ambitious project which took about 20 years to complete aims to compete directly with GPS and replace it with BDS in the Asian country. Thus it is planned to decrease dependence on United States technologies.
