Pakistan becomes first country to deploy China's BeiDou GPS network

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Pakistan has become the first foreign country to use China based GPS system made by BeiDou, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.

BeiDou, or Compass, has also set up a network in Pakistan.

While speaking to the annual China Satellite navigation Conference in Nanjing, Chief Scientist of UniStrong Shen Jun has said that the first stage of Pakistan’s geographic positioning network has been completed with the network covering Karachi.

BeiDou, a navigation satellite system company, is co-developed by China Great Wall Industry Corporation and the Beijing UniStrong Science & Technology Co. Ltd.

The network has five base stations and one processing center, covering Karachi.

The company claims that the GPS can provide positioning with accuracy of up to two centimeters. However, it adds that the accuracy can extend up to five millimeters after post-processing.

GPS can help with urban planning, surveying and mapping environmental supervision, disaster relief efforts, traffic monitoring and other fields.
Shen Jun added that the second stage of the network will cover up the whole area of Pakistan and will be the first national high precision navigation network abroad.

Huang Lei, international business director of BDStar Navigation, which promotes BeiDou, had said in 2013 that the company would build a network of stations in Pakistan to enhance the location accuracy of Beidou.

He said building the network would cost tens of millions of dollars.
BeiDou had demonstrated its navigation system during a conference in Karachi in September 2012.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

A Big news and thanks to China.

Bye Bye GPS,Which could threaten us to cut it incase of any war.

Beidou ofcourse is more reliable.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Beidou coverage so far,Later this decade it will cover the whole world.

Suparco also has similar plan's but not for Global Level but rather limited to South and west asia


Pakistan Now can

*Launch Missiles
*Operate Drone's similar to what CIA do with Predators striking with real time data
*PAF PGM's will be more accurate
*Cruise missile will now have truely a Pinpoint accuracy.

And The most important part is West won't be able to pull it off like they would have done with GPS incase of any tension or war related situation to Pakistan.

Suparco Will launch remote sensing satellite that also will provide real time data for Pakistan and into neigbouring countries like india,Afghanistan,china and iran.

An example of picture taken up by a remote sensing satellite(Not with SAR)

NOTE:Google earth can provide you with similar images but they are old.While if you have your own remote sensing satellite upon focus you can get live coverage(Not as live as we see on the media but with secs or mins differences)

Zoom can be even more