low Earth orbit

February 3, 2026

Furuno and Xona Space Systems sign MoU to develop innovative LEO PNT solutions

By Tracy Cozzens

January 30, 2026

Inertial Labs launches IRINS LEO-aided inertial navigation system

By Tracy Cozzens

January 20, 2026

ArkEdge Space signs international agreements to develop LEO PNT constellation

By Jesse Khalil

TrustPoint's LEONS Ground Station is a compact, rapidly deployable solution designed for global coverage and scalable proliferation. (Photo: TrustPoint)

January 20, 2026

TrustPoint demonstrates GPS-independent navigation signals to orbit

By Jesse Khalil

SpacePNT Gen2 qualification: from top left to bottom right: vibrations, shocks, thermal vacuum, EMC (Photo: SpacePNT)

December 3, 2025

SpacePNT completes qualification testing for second-gen spaceborne GNSS receiver

By Jesse Khalil

Signature of the MoU between NSSTC and Thales Alenia Space. From left to right: David Philipona, Vice President Navigation Domain France at Thales Alenia Space and Ali Al Shehhi, Director of NSSTC. (Photo: Thales Alenia Space)

November 19, 2025

UAE Space Center, Thales Alenia Space partner on LEO-PNT navigation system

By Jesse Khalil

Celeste becomes the name of ESA’s LEO-PNT mission, that will "mediate: between Galileo and the rest of the world. The name was announced during the celebration of 30 years of European satellite navigation, in September 2025 with two actors enacting a fictional conversation between Galileo Galilei and his imagined great granddaughter Celeste, a satellite navigation engineer working at the ESA. (Credit: ESA / M. Polo)

September 8, 2025

ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT demonstrator mission set to launch in December

By Jesse Khalil

Photo: FrontierSI

January 23, 2025

FrontierSI releases LEO PNT state of the market report

By Jesse Khalil

January 1, 2025

ESA releases plans for FutureNAV Industry Day 2025

By Jesse Khalil

LEO-PNT satellite. (Image: ESA)

April 1, 2024

ESA invests €233 million to launch Genesis and LEO-PNT missions

By Jesse Khalil

Figure 1: Ground-calibrated GPS Block III transmit antenna phase center variations (PCVs). (All figures provided by the authors).

May 15, 2023

New type on the block: Generating high-precision orbits for GPS III satellites

By Florian Dilssner, Tim Springer, Francesco Gini, Erik Schönemann, and Werner Enderle

The Moonlight initiative will provide sustainable lunar data-relay services for communication and navigation around the Moon. (ESA Moonlight Study conceptual drawing.) (Image: SSTL/Airbus/ESA)

March 30, 2023

Research roundup: Space and lunar applications

By Maddie Saines

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