{"id":47877,"date":"2025-12-12T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gmv-wins-esa-contract-to-develop-c-band-navigation-antenna-and-receiver-system\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:22:06","slug":"gmv-wins-esa-contract-to-develop-c-band-navigation-antenna-and-receiver-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gmv-wins-esa-contract-to-develop-c-band-navigation-antenna-and-receiver-system\/","title":{"rendered":"GMV Wins ESA Contract to Develop C-Band Navigation Antenna and Receiver System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>GMV<\/strong>\u2018s subsidiaries in the U.K. and Portugal were awarded a contract under the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s NAVISP program to develop BEACON, an advanced beamforming antenna and receiver system designed to improve the resilience of C-band Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) signals from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The 18-month, 800,000 euro ($939,000) program will launch this month,<\/p>\n<p>The BEACON initiative requires GMV to combine beamforming, null-steering and angle-of-arrival estimation to enhance signal integrity and provide stronger protection against interference and spoofing. By delivering these capabilities for C-band, GMV said that BEACON would add a critical component to the region\u2019s emerging end-to-end LEO-based PNT chain. GMV will manage the system from design and integration through calibration and validation<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal at GMV is simple: to make navigation you can trust, wherever you are. By integrating agile beamforming antenna technology with advanced signal processing, BEACON will deliver a PNT capability that remains reliable even under demanding interference conditions.\u201d William Roberts, NAV Manager at GMV UK, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMV\u2018s subsidiaries in the U.K. and Portugal were awarded a contract under the European Space Agency\u2019s NAVISP program to develop BEACON, an advanced beamforming antenna and receiver system designed to improve the resilience of C-band Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) signals from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The 18-month, 800,000 euro ($939,000) program will launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}