Question: When was the Compass-M1 satellite launched?
Answer: 14 April 2007

Question: What is the purpose of the Compass-M1 satellite?
Answer: for signal testing and validation and for the frequency filing

Question: The purpose of the Compass-M1 satellite is similar to the purpose of what other satellite?
Answer: the GIOVE satellites for the Galileo system

Question: What is the altitude of the Compass-M1 satellite?
Answer: 21,150 km

Question: What is the inclination of the Compass-M1 satellite?
Answer: 55.5 degrees

Question: What frequency bands does Compass-M1 transmit in?
Answer: E2, E5B, and E6

Question: What is the phase shift of the sub-signals detected in each frequency band used by  Compass-M1?
Answer: 90 degrees (in quadrature)

Question: What are the two sub-signals in each frequency band referred to as?
Answer: "I" and "Q"

Question: What is the intended purpose of the "I" component?
Answer: likely to be intended for the open service

Question: What is the intended purpose of the "Q" component?
Answer: probably intended for the restricted service

Question: When did the investigation of the signals transmitted by Compass -M1 begin?
Answer: immediately after the launch of Compass -M1 on 14 April 2007

Question: What did engineers at CNES report in June 2007?
Answer: the spectrum and structure of the signals

Question: Who reported the complete decoding of the “I” signals components?
Answer: researchers from Stanford University

Question: Who built the COMPASS receiver?
Answer: a group of engineers at Septentrio

Question: What was the purpose of building the COMPASS receiver?
Answer: report tracking and multipath characteristics of the “I” signals on E2 and E5B

Question: What is the difference between the "I" signals on E2 and E5B and the civilian codes of GPS (L1-CA and L2C)?
Answer: Compass signals have somewhat greater power

Question: When did the Compass system begin operation on a trial bases?
Answer: December 2011

Question: When did the Compass system begin offering navigation, positioning and timing data to China and nearby locations?
Answer: 27 December

Question: What will improve the positioning accuracy of the Compass system?
Answer: as more satellites are launched

Question: Upon launching, the Compass system, what was the location accuracy promised to users?
Answer: accurate to the nearest 10 m

Question: Upon launching, the Compass system, what was the speed promised to users?
Answer: within 0.2 m per second

Question: When did the BeiDou-2 system start offering services?
Answer: December 2012

Question: Where did the BeiDou-2 system start offering services in 2012?
Answer: the Asia-Pacific region

Question: At the time when BeiDou-2 system began offering services, what was the positioning data the system was able to provide?
Answer: between longitude 55°E to 180°E and from latitude 55°S to 55°N

Question: When did the Beidou system begin operating in China?
Answer: December 2011

Question: When is it projected that the global navigation system will be finished?
Answer: by 2020

Question: As of December 2012, how many satellites had been launched for the BeiDou-2 system?
Answer: 16

Question: Of the 16 satellites launched for the BeiDou-2 system, how many are operational?
Answer: 14

Question: When was the Compass-M1 satellite launced?
Answer: 2007

Question: How many satellites were launched from 2009-2011?
Answer: nine

Question: What was achieved by launching 9 additional satellites from 2009-2011?
Answer: functional regional coverage

Question: How many satellites were launched since 2007?
Answer: 16

Question: When did the BeiDou system begin transitioning to global coverage?
Answer: 2015

Question: How did the BeiDou system begin transitioning to global coverage?
Answer: with the first launch of a new-generation of satellites

Question: When were the 18th and 19th satellites for the BeiDou system launched?
Answer: July 25, 2015

Question: Where were the 18th and 19th satellites for the BeiDou system launched from?
Answer: the Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Question: What were the 18th and 19th satellites for the BeiDou system launched with?
Answer: Long March 3B/Expedition-1 carrier rocket

Question: What is the Expedition-1?
Answer: an independent upper stage capable of delivering one or more spacecraft into different orbits

Question: What will the three latest satellites provide after testing?
Answer: navigation services

Question: What kind of testing will be performed on the three latest satellites?
Answer: testing of a new system of navigation signaling and inter-satellite links

Question: How many satellites will be used to test a new system of navigation signaling?
Answer: three

Question: What is the name for the rules issued by the heads of the Church?
Answer: Canon law

Question: In what type of religion are canon laws applicable?
Answer: Christian

Question: Which institutions make up the Catholic Church?
Answer: Latin Church and Eastern Catholic Churches

Question: What body was first responsible for creating canon?
Answer: church council

Question: What does canon law consist of?
Answer: canons

Question: What is the Greek term for canon?
Answer: kanon

Question: What is the Hebrew term for canon?
Answer: kaneh

Question: What is the Arabic term meaning canon?
Answer: Qanun

Question: What is the common definition of the word canon as it appears in Greek, Arabic and Hebrew?
Answer: reed

Question: Which English term is derived from the same root as the Greek, Arabic and Hebrew words for canon?
Answer: cane

Question: How many ancient canons exist in the Eastern Church?
Answer: eighty-five

Question: How many ancient canons exist in the Western Church?
Answer: fifty

Question: What is another term for Apostolic Canons?
Answer: Ecclesiastical Canons

Question: When was the First Council of Nicaea held?
Answer: 325

Question: What is the Greek definition of κανὠν?
Answer: a rule

Question: Who enforces canon law in Catholicism?
Answer: the Church's hierarchical authorities

Question: What is the name for the collection of formal rules in Catholicism?
Answer: canon law

Question: What does management of canon law aim to regulate?
Answer: external organization and government

Question: What is canon law's purpose with respect to members of the Catholic Church?
Answer: order and direct the activities of Catholics toward the mission of the Church

Question: What is another name for the collections of other Catholic churches led by the Supreme Pontiff?
Answer: rites

Question: How many major rites exist?
Answer: five

Question: Who is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church?
Answer: the Supreme Pontiff

Question: What term characterizes the intersection of the rites with the Roman Catholic Church?
Answer: full union

Question: Which denomination is led by the Supreme Pontiff?
Answer: Roman Catholic

Question: What are the permanent sources of positive ecclesiastical law?
Answer: immutable divine and natural law

Question: What are the impermanent sources of positive ecclesiastical law?
Answer: changeable circumstantial and merely positive law

Question: What is given to the universal positive law of the Roman Catholic Church by its leader?
Answer: formal authority and promulgation

Question: What is the pope's official title?
Answer: Supreme Pontiff

Question: What three divisions of power often found in government does the pope hold?
Answer: legislative, executive, and judicial

Question: What entity believes itself to have the longest standing internal mechanism of laws in Western Europe?
Answer: The Catholic Church

Question: What is a legal system older than Catholic law?
Answer: Roman law

Question: What is the term for laws produced at the Council of Jerusalem?
Answer: canons

Question: When was the Council of Jerusalem held?
Answer: first century

Question: Apart from the Old and New Testaments, which other cultures influenced canon?
Answer: Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic