Xona Space Systems and StarNav Announce Strategic Partnership
SAN MATEO, California – Xona Space Systems and StarNav announce a strategic partnership to develop user equipment capable of receiving Xona’s Pulsar™ service to produce resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT) solutions for commercial and government end users.
Xona’s patent pending low Earth orbit (LEO) system architecture utilizes advanced signals and the efficiency of small satellites to provide an affordable global service with more than 10x better accuracy and 100x better interference mitigation than the current GNSS. Xona’s Pulsar™ precision LEO PNT service is designed to both provide users with a secure and robust enhancement to traditional GNSS while also providing GNSS-independent, alternative PNT capability.
“Building the PNT space and ground infrastructure is one piece of the puzzle,” said Bryan Chan, Director of Business Development at Xona Space Systems. “To ultimately deliver value to the end user we need trusted partners to develop the PNT user equipment that can use Xona’s service as a part of an assured or standalone system.”
StarNav is a Riverside-based startup developing PNT user equipment to leverage radio signals of opportunity as a backup or alternative to GPS. These signals include terrestrial transmitted signals, such as cellular and television, and satellite transmitted signals, such as communication and internet. StarNav’s products employ specialized analog and digital signal processing designs to leverage multiple signal types, all from a single product.
“StarNav sees tremendous value of including Xona’s PNT service features into our products,” said Joshua Morales, Chief Executive Officer of StarNav. “To this end, we are moving forward with developing and integrating a receiver to include Xona’s PNT service alongside our suite of signal of opportunity receivers. This will add PNT information redundancy, which intelligent systems require to operate safely and reliably.”
Contact Xona to learn more about their PNT service. Contact StarNav to learn more about their PNT products and services.
About Xona Space Systems, Inc.
Xona Space Systems is developing the first ever independent high-performance satellite navigation and timing system designed to meet the needs of intelligent systems. Delivered via a secure, high-power signal from Xona’s low Earth orbit satellites, the patent-pending Pulsar™ service aims to enable the next wave of connected technology. Learn more at www.xonaspace.com or follow Xona Space Systems on Twitter @XonaSpace.
About StarNav LLC
StarNav develops specialized front ends and receivers that convert ambient radio signals into PNT information to enhance intelligent system reliability. Whether a radio signal was transmitted for communication, internet, or PNT, StarNav’s products can leverage them using a single patent-pending product to provide PNT redundancy for safe system operation. Learn more at www.starnav.io or follow StarNav on LinkedIn @StarNav.
