Editing Satellite navigation (section)

===BeiDou===
{{Main|BeiDou Navigation Satellite System}}
First launch year: 2000

BeiDou started as the now-decommissioned Beidou-1, an Asia-Pacific local network on the geostationary orbits. The second generation of the system BeiDou-2 became operational in China in December 2011.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2012-03-08|title=China's GPS rival is switched on|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16337648|access-date=2020-06-23}}</ref> The BeiDou-3 system is proposed to consist of 30 [[Medium Earth orbit|MEO]] satellites and five geostationary satellites (IGSO). A 16-satellite regional version (covering Asia and Pacific area) was completed by December 2012. Global service was completed by December 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.beidou.gov.cn/WHATSNEWS/201812/t20181227_16837.html|title=The BDS-3 Preliminary System Is Completed to Provide Global Services|website=news.dwnews.com|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref> On 23 June 2020, the BDS-3 constellation deployment is fully completed after the last satellite was successfully launched at the [[Xichang Satellite Launch Center]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APPLICATIONS-Transport|url=http://en.beidou.gov.cn/WHATSNEWS/202006/t20200623_20692.html|access-date=2020-06-23|website=en.beidou.gov.cn}}</ref>