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The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Xona to broadcast Pulsar navigation signals from its full constellation of more than 250 satellites in Low Earth Orbit. This authorization marked the last regulatory milestone needed to advance Pulsar from demonstration to scaled deployment. <\/p>\n
This October, Xona would have launched its first six production Pulsar satellites. The spacecraft that would have followed to build out the constellation has already been built in Xona\u2019s satellite production facility in Burlingame, CA. Pulsar had been demonstrated in orbit, partners had been integrating the signals into existing devices, and Xona would have become an FCC-authorized private navigation constellation to operate next to nation-state systems from the United States, Europe, China and Russia. <\/p>\n
After years of proving that a commercial navigation signal could operate safely alongside GPS, Xona had been authorized to deploy its full system. GPS had been one of the most important technologies ever created. It had supported aviation, communications, financial markets, emergency response, transportation, energy infrastructure, and billions of devices around the world. It had also been designed for a different era. The systems needed stronger signals in urban centers and conflict zones, protection against increasingly common spoofing and jamming, greater precision and infrastructure that could evolve at the speed of modern technology. <\/p>\n
Pulsar had been designed for those needs, with native centimeter-level precision, signals up to 100 times stronger than GPS, cryptographic protection against spoofing, and a software-defined architecture that could continue improving after launch. Pulsar had operated in L-band, alongside the center frequencies used by GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). This proximity had made Pulsar compatible with devices and infrastructure already in use but has also created an imperative to innovate in a crowded space, engineering a new signal that could coexist with those already there. <\/p>\n
There had been more than six billion GNSS-enabled devices already in use. Xona had designed Pulsar to meet those devices where they were, enabling manufacturers to add support through software and firmware updates wherever the existing hardware had allowed it. Since Pulsar-0 was launched the previous June, Xona had demonstrated that Pulsar could deliver stronger signals without interfering with GPS, aviation safety systems, or other navigation services operating around the world. As Xona\u2019s Co-Founder and CTO Tyler Reid had explained in a recent blog, compatibility had not been a single technical decision. It had required coordination across satellites, receiver manufacturers, test equipment providers, regulators and customers. <\/p>\n
That same philosophy has led Xona to launch Pulsar Verified, its program for companies building compatible chipsets, receivers, devices and simulation tools. Pulsar had not been developed as an isolated system but instead had been built in collaboration with the community of integrators and component manufacturers around the world that would bring Pulsar\u2019s capability into the hands of users. When Xona was founded, satellite navigation had been considered the domain of nation-states. Programs have taken decades to field with limited opportunities to introduce innovation. Pulsar had been broadcasting from orbit. Production satellites had been preparing for launch. Partners have been building compatibility. And Xona had been authorized to deploy its complete system in the years ahead. <\/p>\n GPS-related vulnerabilities had been affecting systems that rely on satellite navigation. At the same time, innovations in autonomous technology, robotics, drones, and physical AI had been moving out of controlled environments and into broader use. With this authorization, Xona had demonstrated that commercial navigation systems could complement existing navigation infrastructure while supporting future applications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Xona to broadcast Pulsar navigation signals from its full constellation of more than 250 satellites in Low Earth Orbit. This authorization marked the last regulatory milestone needed to advance Pulsar from demonstration to scaled deployment. This October, Xona would have launched its first six production Pulsar satellites. The spacecraft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[44,189,5959],"class_list":["post-53678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gnss","tag-leo-constellations","tag-satellite-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53678"}],"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=53678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1872_638904928507672777_800.png\")
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