Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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
Many hot-button issues were tackled, including the challenge with U.S. PNT governance and why the U.S. has fallen behind.
By Dana A. Goward
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
A look at integrity and continuity concepts of a dual navigation architecture developed for civil aircraft during precision approaches.
By Inside GNSS
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory successfully launched three experimental payloads aboard the Space Test Program’s STPSat-7 mission on April 7, including a new sensor designed to characterize the orbital GNSS environment and generate ionospheric space weather products directly relevant to GPS accuracy and integrity.
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
From IMU fundamentals to low-SWaP-C system design, experts explain how tightly integrated GNSS-INS is delivering resilient navigation when satellite signals are degraded, intermittent or denied.
By Renee Knight
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.
By Dana A. Goward
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
