Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Iridium Communications announced Thursday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining stake in Aireon LLC, the space-based ADS-B air traffic surveillance operator that has flown as a hosted payload on the Iridium constellation since 2019.
By Inside GNSS
Septentrio has launched the mosaic-G5 P6, a multi-frequency precise positioning module extending the company’s mosaic receiver line for commercial UAV, robotics, and industrial automation integrators.
By Inside GNSS
Thales has introduced the TopStar Smart Receiver, a three-function positioning, navigation, and timing unit designed for land vehicles, drones, and munitions operating under active electronic warfare conditions.
By Inside GNSS
The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded a £6 million contract to Team Elaris, a QinetiQ-led consortium, to develop a deployable concept for enhanced Long-Range Navigation (eLoran) as a GPS-independent positioning, navigation, and timing alternative for military operations in contested environments.
By Inside GNSS
Inside GNSS is on the ground at XPONENTIAL 2026 as an official media partner of the world’s largest autonomous systems and robotics event, taking place May 11–14 at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan. Educational programming opens May 11; exhibits run May 12–14.
By Inside GNSS
Hexagon has completed its acquisition of Inertial Sense, a Utah-based provider of GNSS+INS navigation technology, adding more than 30,000 deployed inertial systems to its assured positioning, navigation, and timing portfolio.
By Inside GNSS
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is calling for urgent action to protect civilian aircraft from an expanding set of military threats, including GNSS radio frequency interference.
By Inside GNSS
Rohde & Schwarz has announced new signal simulation capabilities supporting Pulsar, the Low Earth Orbit positioning, navigation, and timing constellation being developed by Xona Space Systems.
By Inside GNSS
Existing and future GNSS receivers must be able to operate reliably when multiple LEO PNT signals are present, with the opportunity for LEO PNT to become interoperable with GNSS MEO in the same way multi-constellation receivers use signals from different MEO GNSS systems today.
By Inside GNSS
The launch of ESA’s first Celeste LEO-PNT demonstration satellites has prompted u-blox to announce it is actively assessing how Low Earth Orbit signals can complement GNSS in mass-market positioning architectures.
By Inside GNSS
ESA has confirmed reception of the first navigation signal transmitted by the Celeste IOD-1 satellite, a 12U CubeSat developed by GMV and Alén Space under the European Space Agency’s Celeste In-Orbit Demonstrator program.
By Inside GNSS
The Secure World Foundation’s Global Counterspace Capabilities 2026, an annual open-source assessment of space warfare developments, documents a year in which GNSS interference shifted from an episodic threat to a persistent feature of conflict zones on multiple continents.
By Inside GNSS
On the day before the first two Celeste satellites were launched from Rocket Lab Complex 1 in New Zealand, Pietro Giordano, LEO-PNT System Manager at ESA/ESTEC, was at the 2026 Munich Space Summit, explaining the significance of Europe’s LEO-PNT system.
By Peter Gutierrez
