On 11 November 2026, Prof. Weisong Wen attended the 2026 Satellite Navigation Editorial Board Meeting (2026《卫星导航（英文）》编委会全体工作会议) in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The meeting was hosted by the journal Satellite Navigation and organised by Southeast University, and brought together the journal’s editorial board members to review its 2026 work and discuss its plans for the period ahead.
The 2026 Satellite Navigation Editorial Board Meeting in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
Journal progress
The programme included the 2026 work report and a discussion of the journal’s priorities for the second half of the year. Satellite Navigation (《卫星导航（英文）》) is China’s first English-language journal in satellite navigation. Launched in January 2020 as an academic exchange platform for the BeiDou navigation satellite system and edited by Academician Yang Yuanxi, it is sponsored by the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Science Publishing & Media Ltd (Science Press), and published in open access with Springer Nature. The journal reports a CiteScore of 19.9 and an Impact Factor of 12.4 for 2025, both in the Q1 quartile and second worldwide in the aerospace engineering category. It was indexed by SCI in 2023, holds a Zone 1 (Top) placement in the 2025 CAS journal ranking, and was listed among the “China TOP Journals” in the 2025 WJCI report.
The inaugural issue of 《卫星导航（英文）》, published in open access with Springer Nature.
Paper collection and the 2027 conference
The board also discussed the journal’s paper-collection plan and the proposal for the 2027 academic conference.
Registration, conference materials and the lakeside venue of the meeting in Jiangning, Nanjing.
Prof. Wen’s attendance reflects TASLAB’s continued engagement with the satellite-navigation community.