antiterror13
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very good video, thanks ..... so there will be 19 operational BeiDou satellites soon ?
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very good video, thanks ..... so there will be 19 operational BeiDou satellites soon ?
escobar
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Beidou-2: Full operational with 15 sats since december 2012
Beidou-3: 3 sats lauched
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antiterror13
Brigadier
so what the improvements of BeiDou-3 over BeiDou-2 ? does it mean all BeiDou-2 Sats will get replaced with BeiDou-3?
Quickie
Colonel
If I'm not mistaken, the BeiDou-2 satellites should work independently from the BeiDou-3 satellites, meaning that they are 2 different systems with the BeiDou-3 replacing the BeiDou-2 once the former is completed.
antiterror13
Brigadier
nope, its not right. The first 4 original Satellites were the original and all have been retired. I am sure that BeiDou-2 and 3 can work together perfectly, just like GPS
Quickie
Colonel
From this quote in this article , it doesn't sound like the BeiDou 2 is integrated into the BeiDou-3.
"....... To expand the system to a Global Navigation Satellite System, CAST designed three different types of satellites - Beidou-3M satellites to enter Medium Earth Orbit (27 satellites), Beidou-3I in inclined Geosynchronous Orbits (3 satellites) and Geostationary Beidou-3G Satellites (5 satellites).
The IGSO and GEO satellites will be launched when the Beidou-2 satellites in these orbits reach the end of their lives while the Medium Earth Orbit constellation starts deployment in 2015 to be fully operational by 2020 transitioning from a deployment into a maintenance phase with a few launches per year like it is done for GPS and Glonass........ "
The statement in bold doesn't say anything about the Beidou-2 satellites going to be integrated with the Beidou-3 Medium Earth Orbit constellation, or the Beidou-2 satellites going to be slowly replaced unit by unit by the IGSO and GEO satellites,
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