China's homegrown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is going global

BeiDou, China’s homegrown navigation satellite system, is to cover the world by 2020. Watch a video to see how it differs from GPS and can help you in life.

[raychang]

BeiDou is Chinese for Northstar in case you are wondering.

[allenfan]

I am happy to try Beidou, a good alternative to replace evil GPS

[malebitsatimbuktu]

"Reality today is more like science fiction."

[patawoonie]

Congratulations China you did a great gigantic job

[edwardtang]

we have continuous video tracking of carrier battle groups, we see it from San Diego.

[liewjames]

Wonderful! I hope China haters will not dismiss Beidou as copycat GPS technology because it would be so laughable and silly. Long live PRC! 恭喜祖国！！！加油！

[thevivekmathema]

Wow... The chinese DF21 ICBM will now have global reach... Great news for USA

[TW-mxuz]

I love my country ! China is the best !

[paopaowell]

multiple ton of US programmer rush and making new BPS satellite system application for making huge big money

[patawoonie]

That’s what human kind is looking forward

[hhsanadi]

USA =GPS
Russia =glonass
China =BeiDou
Europe =Galileo
India =navic.