November/December 2024
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Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Online News, Articles, and Features
Government agencies and private industry worldwide are advancing toward a sustained presence on the Moon. In response, NASA, ESA and JAXA are collaborating to develop LunaNet—a network of cooperating networks designed to provide robust and interoperable lunar communications and PNT services.
The growing threat of spoofing and jamming remains a chief concern, with many talks at the symposium focused on how these threats impact highly automated transportation systems (HAVs) and the importance of developing and adopting CPNT technologies.
The startup plans to launch its first demonstration mission on SpaceX’s Transporter 5 in May, with the goal of displaying high-quality commercial PNT LEO signals from a payload suitable for small satellite deployment.
Will the network, which some are still fighting, be ready for a September rollout, and if so, what are the implications for GPS and the people who rely on it?
Speakers at the 14th European Space Conference in Brussels discussed the need to defend EU assets against unfriendly attacks. Recent events in Eastern Europe would seem to lend force to such concerns, as the European Union makes headway toward the intersection of civil infrastructure and security and defense.
Set to launch in late 2024, the NTS-3 satellite system developed by L3Harris together with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is the Department of Defense’s first experimental, integrated navigation satellite system in 50 years.
