Chinese Scientist Promotes Innovation in Space Exploration Payloads
While providing people with high-precision positioning and navigation, China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has also become more significant in accurate weather forecasting. To explain the scientific principles behind it, Sun Yueqiang, director of the Key Laboratory for Space Environment Exploration of the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, drew a diagram with the Earth in the middle, a Fengyun satellite 800 kilometers away at one end, and a BDS satellite around 20,000 kilometers away at the other end.
Nov 15, 2023