{"id":85114,"date":"2018-11-26T02:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/china-is-building-a-9-billion-rival-to-the-american-run-gps"},"modified":"2018-11-26T02:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:02:52","slug":"china-is-building-a-9-billion-rival-to-the-american-run-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/china-is-building-a-9-billion-rival-to-the-american-run-gps","title":{"rendered":"China Is Building a $9 Billion Rival to the American-Run GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-building-a-9-billion-rival-to-the-american-run-gps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Location data beamed from GPS satellites are used by smartphones, car navigation systems, the microchip in your dog\u2019s neck and guided missiles \u2014 and all those satellites are controlled by the U.S. Air Force. That makes the Chinese government uncomfortable, so it\u2019s developing an alternative that a U.S. security analyst calls one of the largest space programs the country has undertaken.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Beidou Navigation System will be accessible worldwide by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-25\/china-s-big-dipper-satellites-challenge-the-dominance-of-gps\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018&#45;11&#45;25\/c...nce-of-gps<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location data beamed from GPS satellites are used by smartphones, car navigation systems, the microchip in your dog\u2019s neck and guided missiles \u2014 and all those satellites are controlled by the U.S. Air Force. That makes the Chinese government uncomfortable, so it\u2019s developing an alternative that a U.S. security analyst calls one of the largest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,1512,2028,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}