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China’s GNSS Program, Compass – Beidou 2, Launches New GEO Satellite
China successfully launched another Compass satellite into geostationary orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan province at about 0:12 a.m. Beijing Time on Sunday (January 17).
It was the third satellite in the second-generation Beidou program that China has launched for its GNSS system, following a middle earth orbit (MEO) spacecraft sent up April 14, 2007 and a GEO spacecraft last April 18
Program officials reasserted plans to complete an initial regional system by 2012 and a complete 35-satellite constellation by 2020, according to Xinhua News Agency.
The new satellite was boosted by a Chang Zheng (Long March-3C) carrier rocket into a geostationary orbit.