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1. Various of animation about BeiDou-3 satellite
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Ping, Chief Designer, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (starting with shot 1/partially overlaid with shot 3):
"The atomic clock in the satellite is crucial to the navigation satellite. The BeiDou-3 satellite uses a new generation atomic clock. Its positioning accuracy is one order of magnitude higher than the one previously used. It may provide users with navigation and time service more accurately."
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3. Various of Animation about BeiDou-3 satellite
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4. Various of workers working with satellite
5. Satellite being lifted
6. Satellite being putting down
7. Satellite

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China - Nov 1, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Rocket launching
9. Rocket flying
10. Engineers in monitor center watching screen showing rocket flying
11. Digital screen showing rocket disassembling

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
12. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Xie Jun, Deputy Chief Designer, BeiDou-3 navigation satellite system (partially overlaid with shot 13):
"At present, China and the neighboring areas are still using the service provided by BeiDou-2 that was built a few years ago. BeiDou-3 is using a new new navigation signal. So preliminary work of Beidou-3 on track and on ground was mainly integration and joint debugging, tests and evaluation of the system."

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13. Animation about satellites
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14. Animation of map of China
15. Various of Animation about satellites

China has made many technical breakthroughs in the BeiDou-3 satellite navigation system, according to experts.

The nearly 100 key technologies developed by Chinese scientists have enabled the system not only to cover the whole world but also lift the positioning accuracy up to 2.5 meters to 5 meters, double and even triple that of BeiDou-2.

"The atomic clock in the satellite is crucial to the navigation satellite. The BeiDou-3 satellite uses the new generation atomic clock, which has an accuracy one order of magnitude higher than the one previously used. It can provide users with more accurate navigation and time service," said Wang Ping, Chief Designer at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

The BeiDou-3 provides satellite-based augmentation service and international search and rescue service according to international standards. The short message capacity has increased by ten-fold and the user transmission power has been lowered by 10 times. The user terminals are small in size and integrated, easy to use. Though a later comer, China spent only 20 years achieving the technical level that took the United States and Russia more than 40 years.

"At present, China and the neighboring areas are still using the service provided by BeiDou-2 that was built a few years ago. BeiDou-3 is using a new new navigation signal. So preliminary work of Beidou-3 on track and on ground was mainly integration and joint debugging, tests and evaluation of the system," said Xie Jun, Deputy Chief Designer of t he BeiDou-3 navigation satellite system.

The BeiDou-3 project officially started in 2009 and the first networking satellite launch took place on Nov. 5, 2017. With two more new satellites on orbit on Monday, the basic system made up of 19 satellites will be put into service soon.

Up to now, 18 medium earth orbits satellites and one geostationary orbit satellite have been launched for the BeiDou-3 system, which will complete the networking by the end of 2008 to serve countries along the belt and road routes.

China plans to launch six other satellites to the medium earth orbits, three satellites to the inclined geosynchronous earth orbit and two satellites to the geostationary earth orbit from 2019 to 2020.

The system will provide first-class services around the world by the end of 2020.