What happened to the BeiDou-3 global satellite navigation system? What is the specific situation?

July 31, 2020 is a big day worth remembering for the Chinese people. Whether you are in front of the TV or using your mobile phone, I believe you have received the major good news from various channels: Beidou is officially launched! At the BeiDou-3 global satellite navigation system completion and opening ceremony, Xi Jinping announced: "The BeiDou-3 global satellite navigation system is officially open!"

BeiDou-3 global satellite navigation system officially launched

It is reported that on June 23, the last global networking satellite of Beidou-3 successfully flew into space after the "restart" launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. At this point, all 30 Beidou-3 global networking satellites are in place, and the constellation deployment of my country's Beidou-3 global satellite navigation system has been fully completed, six months ahead of original plan.

The launch of Beidou is of extraordinary significance. Having one's own satellite navigation system has become an important symbol of a world power and a technological commanding height in the competition among major powers. At present, China has built a complete Beidou industry chain integrating chips, boards, terminals and operation services, and has used it on a large scale in mass consumption as a standard for key national industries and key areas.
After 26 years of hard work, we finally become Beidou. From the launch of the BeiDou-1 system project in 1994 to the completion of the BeiDou-3 networking satellite launch mission today, it took China's BeiDou team 26 years to develop and launch 55 satellites. Since the launch of the project, more than 400 units and more than 300,000 scientific and technological personnel have been mobilized across the country to participate in research and development.

With the continuous development of new technologies such as 5G mobile communications, blockchain, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and their further integration with the Beidou system, building an emerging industrial ecosystem with Beidou space-time information as the main content will promote changes in production and lifestyles and continuous innovation in business models, which will create huge economic and social benefits.

As Academician Sun Jiadong, the first chief designer of the Beidou satellite navigation system, once said, "The application of Beidou is only limited by human imagination." The future application value of Beidou is completely immeasurable!