China's GPS Rival Moves Beyond Experimental Phase

China has moved into operational deployment of its planned system of positioning satellites, with the launch of the first such spacecraft without the label "experimental." The Apr. 14 launch of the Compass 1M satellite may turn out to be just as important for the country's hard-pressed civil air...

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