In 2005, Galileo's first medium-orbit satellite, GLOVE-A, was launched aboard the Russian Soyuz carrier rocket.

Although this is only a real satellite, not one of the 30 navigation satellites to be finally arranged, the launch of "GLOVE-A" marks a change in the direction of the EU's "Galileo" program from design to operation.

However, in 2005, European politics began to turn, and the former "pro-China" German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder retired in disgrace, and Merkel, a pro-American politician from a right-wing party, became the new chancellor of Germany.

France has also entered an era of leadership change, Chirac's influence has gradually declined, and the pro-American politician Nicolas Sarkozy has been president of France since 2007.

Pro-American politicians have come to power, dimming the EU's desire to build a "multipolar world," and Europe is rapidly moving closer to the United States.

Against this backdrop, the European Space Agency (ESA) has "reconciled" with the United States and agreed to revise the previously proposed transmission frequencies similar to those of the United States GPS, so as to minimize the possibility of signal conflicts once it is put into service.

But such a technical re-correction costs a lot of money outside the budget. In return, the United States agreed to technically support the development of "Galileo".

It was at this time that the European Union began to quarrel over the distribution of finances and benefits of the "Galileo" program. It was also from this time that the EU began to crowd out China.

Huge sums of money have been invested, but they have not been treated commensurately, even less than other non-EU countries that have not invested a penny. Countries such as India have greatly dissatisfied China.

Not only was China unable to enter the decision-making body of the "Galileo" program, but it was even blocked by the obstacles deliberately erected by the European Space Agency in the development of technical cooperation.

The Chinese side has nothing to gain except for the "good reputation" of one participant, but has to bear a huge amount of capital investment, and this "outcome" makes the Chinese side very dissatisfied.

Against this backdrop, China has begun to shift its attention to the Beidou system, which has been dormant for several years.

The fourth Beidou-1 navigation satellite, launched in 2007, replaced the decommissioned satellite, and the Beidou system began to be activated.

By the end of 2007, China had successfully launched its first "medium orbit" navigation system. It marks a major breakthrough in technology and planning of the "Beidou" system.

At this time. The EU is still not out of the midst of internal strife.

It was not until April 27, 2008 that the second satellite of the Galileo system was launched, almost four years after the last launch. It was a full five years later than originally planned.

"Beidou" No. 2 was born. Not only did the desire of the European "Galileo" system to prepare to compete with the American GPS be greatly reduced. It also diluted the future market prospects of "Galileo".

The "Beidou" 2 is more technologically advanced than the "Galileo", and the positioning accuracy even reaches the 0.5 meter level, which deeply shocked the Europeans.

On the other hand. The launch of the previous "Galileo" plan stimulated the United States and Russia to speed up technological upgrading, and the positioning accuracy and other technical indicators of the new generation of GPS and the new generation of "GLONASS" quickly surpassed "Galileo", and "Galileo" gradually lost its relative leading edge in technology.

In order to change the passive situation, the Europeans have no other way but to increase financial investment, and at this time, in order to squeeze out China, the European Space Agency has stipulated in the form of laws that all development funds come from EU public funds, which means that if they want to increase investment, they have to "quarrel" endlessly internally.

Europeans have begun to sourly say that China's "Beidou-2" technology was "stolen" from the EU's "Galileo" program, and such frivolous remarks have become another example of Europeans' arrogance and conceit.

Out of strategic necessity, China has not completely abandoned cooperation with the EU's "Galileo" program, but this can no longer stop China from launching its own global navigation system.

In accordance with the procedures commonly used by the International Telecommunication Union, China has informed the organization of the frequency of satellite launches it intends to use, which coincides with the frequency that the European "Galileo" system intends to use for "public administration services".

Channels are a rare resource. The United States and Russia, which have the advantage, each have the best frequencies to use, and the frequencies that China has a focus on are considered to be the "second-best" frequencies after the United States and Russia.

In accordance with the principle of international law of "first-use, first-served", China and the EU have become competitors for this frequency.

However, China will launch three Beidou second-generation satellites in 2009 to officially launch the frequency, while the EU has not even launched the three scheduled satellites, and is destined to lose ownership of the frequency in this "unexpected" race.

To date, China has successfully launched 16 Beidou second-generation satellites, while Europe's Galileo program is still faltering.

If this war situation assists China in completing the global deployment of the Beidou satellite navigation system in a short period of time, then it will also be the coffin of the previous frequency controversy, and the Europeans will no longer have the capital to compete with China for the frequency of the satellite positioning system.

This is the reason why Chen Xin proposed to speed up the networking of the Beidou satellite navigation system, which can attract so many people's attention.

Chen Xin asked Admiral Li Yuanqing, "General Li, how is the training of the Dawning and Julong aerospace planes progressing now?"

Li Yuanqing said: "According to the current training progress, the crew members of these two aerospace planes will be able to carry out flight missions in about another month." ”

Chen Xin nodded and said: "This is the best, the remaining 19 satellites will be manufactured by our war situation, and then they will be delivered to you for launch, and the war preparations of OPEC countries will last for two months at most, and now there is intelligence that Egypt has joined the OPEC camp, and these countries are fully capable of posing a threat to Somalia through the land at that time, so we don't have much time." ”

The "Beidou" satellite navigation system consists of five geostationary orbit satellites and 30 non-geostationary orbit satellites, and some satellites are still under development, and it is impossible to put them in place immediately.

Li Yuanqing laughed and said: "Mr. Chen, then it's decided, I can't wait to see what kind of expressions those Europeans will have on their faces when the Beidou Satellite Navigation System is completed!" (To be continued......)