Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Readers will not be surprised to learn resilience was a major focus at Eurosatory 2026. Across giant exhibit halls packed with the latest military gear, companies and customers were discussing how autonomous systems, sensors and communications networks can continue operating in increasingly contested environments.
By Peter Gutierrez
Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) announced July 6 that it has completed its acquisition of Aireon LLC, operator of the space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) air traffic surveillance system.
By Inside GNSS
Tersus GNSS has launched the AG993, a modular autosteer retrofit kit for agricultural vehicles that pairs high-precision GNSS positioning with the company’s proprietary TAP (Tersus Advanced Positioning) satellite correction service alongside conventional RTK support. The system targets better-than-2.5 cm accuracy across a 0.2–30 km/h working speed range, with support down to 0.1 km/h and standard automatic headland U-turns.
By Inside GNSS
Pacific Defense has received a contract from the U.S. Army Program Manager Positioning, Navigation and Timing to develop a Block 2 Assured Position, Navigation and Timing plug-in card under the CMOSS Mounted Form Factor program — extending the company’s role in one of the Army’s key C5ISR modernization initiatives.
By Inside GNSS
Rocket Lab Corporation and Iridium Communications Inc. announced today a definitive agreement under which Rocket Lab will acquire all outstanding shares of Iridium common stock for $54 per share in a cash and stock transaction, implying an enterprise value for Iridium of approximately $8.0 billion.
By Inside GNSS
Taoglas has introduced the GVLB208 series, a dual-band L1/L5 GNSS stacked patch antenna family in a 20 mm x 20 mm x 8 mm footprint. The series is available in passive (GVLB208.A) and active (AGVLB208.A) configurations, both using a single-feed architecture that supports concurrent L1 and L5 reception without the complexity of multi-feed designs.
By Inside GNSS
NASA has awarded PlanetiQ an expanded contract through its Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program, adding high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) GNSS polarimetric radio occultation (PRO) data to the company’s existing CSDA portfolio.
By Inside GNSS
Honeywell Aerospace has introduced Kestrel, an Embedded GNSS/INS navigation solution designed to maintain continuous position, velocity and attitude estimates independent of external signals — a capability the company is positioning directly against the GNSS-degraded environments that have come to define modern contested operations.
By Inside GNSS
At Eurosatory 2026, one of the themes echoing across exhibition halls packed with armored vehicles, autonomous systems, and electronic warfare technologies was that the era of uncontested satellite navigation is over. Growing threats include jamming, spoofing, and signal obstruction, and companies throughout the PNT ecosystem are searching for new ways to deliver resilience.
By Peter Gutierrez
SparkFun Electronics has launched SparkPNT as a dedicated subsidiary for its positioning, navigation and timing business, the company announced June 17. The new business grew out of SparkX, SparkFun’s experimental division, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary while functioning as an independent business unit, drawing on more than two decades of SparkFun’s product design, manufacturing and distribution infrastructure.
By Inside GNSS
As Ukraine uses Starlink-enabled drones to target Russian fuel logistics in occupied Ukraine, Russia’s military is reportedly scaling up efforts to solve one of the harder tactical EW problems of the war: locally denying Starlink connectivity without having to suppress the entire constellation by scaling deployment of an electronic warfare system called Volna Kupol Garant, or “Wave Dome Guarantor.”
By Sebastien Roblin
German defense electronics firm HENSOLDT unveiled SkyBarrier at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris on June 16, positioning the system as a mobile broadband jammer for satellite-based navigation signals. The company describes the system as an electronic countermeasure intended for armed forces and government agencies seeking to deny adversaries the use of navigation-dependent systems.
By Inside GNSS
A u-blox high-precision GNSS timing receiver is providing the synchronization backbone for PANOSETI, a distributed optical telescope array designed to scan the entire sky for potential signatures of extraterrestrial intelligence.
By Inside GNSS
