March/April 2026
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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
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.
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.
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.
The U.S. has fallen behind in both space-based and APNT. Now is the time to change that with new PNT policy and stronger governance.
