China’s Beidou Satellite System Begins Full-Scale Global Service
中国北斗卫星系统开始全面全球服务
China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been completed and started providing full-scale global services on Friday.
中国的北斗导航卫星系统已部署完毕，自周五起已开始提供全面的全球定位导航服务。
This is a new milestone in China’s space industry and also a major achievement in the country’s efforts to boost science, technology and innovation, experts have said.
“这是中国航空事业的又一个新的里程碑也是中国在致力于发展科学、技术和创新中的一大主要的成就”，专家说道。
Beidou is the country’s largest space-based system and one of four global navigation networks, along with the United States’ GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo.
北斗是中国最大的基于航空服务系统，也是全球四大导航网络之一，其他的还包括美国的GPS, 俄罗斯的GLONASS自己欧盟的Galileo.
More than 300,000 scientists, engineers and technicians from more than 400 domestic institutes, universities and enterprises have been involved in Beidou’s development and construction. Dozens of distinguished scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering have taken part in the program, project leaders said.
来自400多个国内研究所、高校和企业的科学家、工程师和技术员参与到北斗的发展的建设当中。十多位来自中国科学院与中国工程院的著名科学家也参与到该项目中。项目负责人称。
In late June, the final satellite to complete Beidou’s third-generation network was lifted by a Long March 3B carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and was placed into a geostationary orbit about 36,000 kilometers above the Earth.
在六月末，完成北斗第三代网络的最后的卫星已经在四川省的西昌卫星发射中心通过长征3B启动升空，并且安置到高于地球约36000千米的相对地面静止的轨道中。
After in-orbit tests over the past month, the satellite, the 59th in the Beidou family and 30th in the third-generation series, has recently started its formal operations, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
据中国卫星导航办公室，在过去的一个月的轨道内测试后，这一北斗家族的第59号以及第三代系列的第30号卫星最近已经开始正式运作。
