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Proposed regional positioning using two geostationary satellites together with communication, a concept developed by a team and demonstrated in 1989.
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This is the 1983 concept attributed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Chen. Team engineering, the 1989 demonstration and the later BeiDou system are distinct stages.
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People and systems
Chen Fangyun
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Chen Fangyun: a two-satellite positioning and communication concept
Proposed regional positioning using two geostationary satellites together with communication, a concept developed by a team and demonstrated in 1989.
Scientific scope
This is the 1983 concept attributed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Chen. Team engineering, the 1989 demonstration and the later BeiDou system are distinct stages.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Chen Fangyun
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.