Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
This sets the stage for the GPS IIIF satellites currently being produced by Lockheed Martin.
By Inside GNSS
PlanetiQ has been awarded a $15 million Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop and launch a new generation of satellites combining three GNSS-based Earth observation techniques in a single platform.
By Inside GNSS
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first production unit of the EGI-M, a modernized airborne positioning, navigation and timing system engineered to maintain accuracy in GPS-contested and denied environments.
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
Xona Space Systems opened a satellite manufacturing facility in Burlingame, California on April 9, moving its Pulsar positioning, navigation, and timing service from orbital demonstration to production-scale deployment.
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
The U.S. Army has awarded two Other Transaction Authority contracts under its NorthStar mounted PNT program, selecting IS4S and GPS Source to develop next-generation Assured PNT capability for Army 2040 ground-based platforms.
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
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
VIAVI Solutions has integrated its Secure µPNT STL-1000 receiver into Ground Control’s RockFLEET Assured platform, giving maritime operators a GNSS-independent positioning and timing source for contested and denied environments.
By Inside GNSS
Resilience, authentication, complementary systems and timing assurance were among the critical issues covered at this year’s Munich Space Summit, where colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic came together to help define what a resilient PNT future looks like.
By Peter Gutierrez
For the first time, the summit merged two meetings, the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit and the Munich NewSpace Summit, highlighting how NewSpace energy is starting to reshape Europe’s space model and PNT vision.
By Inside GNSS
At this year’s Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, Xona co-founder and CTO Tyler Reid did something that funding announcements rarely do on their own: he made the company’s case feel immediate.
By Peter Gutierrez
