World's first commercial navigation signal from Xona gets US approval
The approval clears Xona to deploy production satellites that send signals up to 100 times stronger than GPS and add anti-spoofing protection.
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U.S. Clears Xona’s Pulsar for Full Constellation Deployment - Inside GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
First-of-its-kind FCC authorization clears Xona to broadcast Pulsar alongside GPS from its planned constellation of more than 250 satellites. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized Xona to broadcast the world’s first commercial navigation signal designed to operate alongside GPS from its full Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The first-of-its-kind authorization comes as Xona prepares to launch its first six production …
World's first commercial navigation signal from Xona gets US approval
California-based Xona announced on August 4 that the US Federal Communications Commission has authorized its full low Earth orbit satellite constellation to transmit the world’s first commercial navigation signal alongside GPS. The approval arrives ahead of the company’s planned October launch of its first six production satellites. Xona is expanding satellite manufacturing at its Burlingame facility to deploy the Pulsar system for devices and i…
FCC Clears Full Deployment of Private Navigation Satellite Network
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Xona Space Systems to broadcast navigation signals from a planned constellation of more than 250 satellites, clearing what the company describes as its last regulatory hurdle before full-scale deployment.The authorization, announced Monday, expands an earlier FCC license granted for Xona’s Pulsar-0 demonstration satellite, which has been broadcasting from low Earth orbit since June 2025. Xona,…
The Pulsar-0 satellite joined the low orbit on 23 June 2025, powered by a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX during the Transporter-14 mission, confirms Les Numériques. Since then, the tests conducted by the Californian start-up Xona Space Systems have validated a 1.5 centimeter positioning accuracy and a 95% interference resistance rate. Located in Burlingame, California, Xona is developing a navigation system called Pulsar, which is thought to be a c…
Xona Space Gets FCC Approval for GNSS Constellation
Xona Space received approval Monday from the FCC Space Bureau to deploy and operate a low earth orbit radio navigation satellite service (RNSS) constellation of 258 satellites in the L band. In its authorization, the bureau said Xona's RNSS transmissions...
U.S. clears Xona’s Pulsar for full constellation deployment - Cyprus Shipping News
First-of-its-kind FCC authorization clears Xona to broadcast Pulsar alongside GPS from its planned constellation of more than 250 satellites. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized Xona to broadcast the world’s first commercial navigation signal designed to operate alongside GPS from its full Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The first-of-its-kind authorization comes as Xona prepares
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