The five geostationary satellites in high Earth orbit are mainly for short-message service. The expert disclosed that the Beidou-2 system plans to form a global network of 35 Beidou navigation satellites by 2020, five more than GPS. Although it could not rival the GPS systems in terms of positioning accuracy, it, at least, met the design target. Until the early 1980s, Chinese expert Chen Fangyun put forward the positioning scheme based on two satellites that were launched into high Earth orbit. Like other countries, China used to rely on GPS for research and development of technology, said Ran. The civilian use is now open to the world.
was put into operation in 1995, which now has 30 satellites in medium Earth orbit for military and civilian use. The world’s first man-made earth satellite was launched by the Soviet Union on Oct. Other systems include the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the US, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) built by Russia, and the Galileo system of the European Union. The system has become a major supplier of global satellite navigation services. Ran Chengqi, deputy chief designer of the system said Beidou, also known as Compass, will provide all-weather and all-time services, including highly accurate and reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services, as well as short-message service. 26.Ĭonstruction of the Beidou-3 global positioning system has already started and four networking satellites will be launched later this year to greatly increase the positioning accuracy of the existing system. But this doesn't mean Google's search services are anywhere close to returning to the mainland, Zhao said.An expert says that the satellite networking system in the Asia-Pacific region based on China’s self-developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System performs better than GPS in terms of positioning, real-time navigation, and accurate timing, according to the WeChat account of People’s Daily on Sept. Google has pinned big hopes on China's domestic market and hopes to cultivate mainland user stickiness by efforts such as the availability of Google Translate on mobile devices, Zhao Ziming, an analyst with Analysys International, a Beijing-based Internet consultancy, told the Global Times. "The academic sector will be the first to get through," Liu Binjie, a lawmaker and former head of the General Administration of Press and Publication, was quoted as saying in a South China Morning Post article, speaking of Google's return.Īnalysts, however, are less optimistic about Google's mainland return in the foreseeable future. The fresh speculation followed recent reports that Google Scholar will be the vanguard of the US search giant's much-speculated attempt to re-enter the Chinese mainland market. The app comes across as being well-received, with many users speaking highly of its augmented reality feature, Word Lens, that enables instant translation of text out of a photo. "Does this mean it plans to launch its comeback?"
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"The Web-version of Google Translate has always been accessible in, and now Google Translate has been updated to version 5.8 on Android and iOS, is an extension of Google's translation service that has always been available to users," Google told the Global Times on Thursday.Ī low-key update of Google's Translate mobile app on Wednesday seems to have beefed up anticipation that Google might return to the Chinese mainland after a withdrawal from the market in 2010.įinally the translation service has been made available without using a VPN, a user named "MXHJWAY" commented Wednesday on Apple's App Store. The latest update to Google's Translate mobile app extends the reach of Chinese mainland users beyond a Web-based version of the translation service, the US search giant said on March 30, 2017, downplaying renewed speculation about its mainland comeback. The latest update to Google's Translate mobile app extends the reach of Chinese mainland users beyond a Web-based version of the translation service, the US search giant said on Thursday, downplaying renewed speculation about its mainland comeback.