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Objectives: On July 31, 2020, China's BeiDou-3 satellite navigation system (BDS-3), which operates independently, has been fully completed and officially opened for service. The signal system of BDS-3 has been redesigned to provide public service signals of five frequencies: B1I, B3I, B1C, B2a and B2b. Methods: Based on the observations of international global navigation system monitoring and assessment service and multi-GNSS experiment (MGEX) tracking stations, this paper analyzes the characteristics of pseudoranges multipath error, signal to noise ratio, geometry-free ionosphere-free phase(GFIFP) combined observations of the new signal system, as well as the precise orbit determination (POD) performance evaluation of BDS-3 satellites. Results and Conclusions: The results show that the multipath noise level of BDS-3 satellites signal is better than that of BeiDou-2 navigation satellite system satellites, and there is no systematic deviation related to altitude angle, B1C is more significantly affected by multipath and noise. The GFIFP sequences of different signal combinations of BDS-3 satellites show periodic systematic error related to satellite, and the peak value is about 2 cm. For BDS-3 satellites, the one-step POD method is used. The two frequencies ionospheric free combination of B1I & B3I and B1C & B2a is adopted respectively. The orbit boundary discontinuity and satellite laser ranging carried out an orbit accuracy check, and the results show that when the number of available observations is less than B1I & B3I, the orbit accuracy of B1C & B2a is equivalent to that of B1I & B3I, and the radial internal coincidence accuracy is 6.1 cm and 6.6 cm respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global constellation network of BeiDou-3 navigation satellite system (BDS-3) has been completed, which means that BDS-3 has entered a new era of providing high-quality positioning, navigation and timing service for global users.Methods: To comprehensively compare the performance of BDS-3 uncombined precise point positioning (PPP) with other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), this paper focuses on three aspects, including the consistency of BDS-3 precise orbit and clock products among different analysis centers, the satellite availability of BDS-3/GNSS, the positioning performance of BDS-3/GNSS single-system and multi-system PPP.Results: Based on the precise orbit and clock products from five analysis centers, the three-dimensional root mean square error of BDS-3 static PPP is between 2.31 cm and 4.00 cm, and its convergence time is significantly slower than that of other GNSS. The intro‐ duction of GPS observations can achieve the most obvious improvement among BDS-3/GNSS dual-system joint PPP. Besides, the quad-constellation observations can effectively shorten the convergence time of PPP and improve the positioning accuracy on kinematic mode. Conclusions: With the development of BDS-3 and the improvement of its orbit and clock products, BDS-3 has a great potential to provide highquality positioning services as other GNSS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]