The 50th and 51st Beidou navigation satellites [IMAGE: CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES]

China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) has improved its timing service, according to a new study.

Researchers from the National Time Service Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed the time transfer performance of BDS-3 signals. Results showed that the time transfer performance of the BDS-3 is over 50 percent higher than that of the BDS-2.

After conducting a zero-baseline common clock time comparison and other analyses, the research found that the time transfer performance of BDS-3 signals is comparable to that of Galileo and GPS.

Source: Xinhua