Over the weekend, China sent into space a third of 35 planned to launch satellites, which are designed to ensure the communist giant’s independent global positioning system by 2020.
The network under either COMPASS is designed to provide navigation and communication services to users in the Asia-Pacific region to about 2012, and throughout the world – by 2020, reports our source in the government of the PRC.
The West fears the growth of technological capacity of China, believing that it quickly increase its military capabilities. China attaches great importance to ideological own space program. In 2003, China sent into space first “taikonaut”, and in 2012 planning to plant operated vehicle on the moon.
