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U.S. Clears Xona’s Pulsar for Full Constellation Deployment
['Inside Gnss']
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.
With this authorization, Xona will become the only FFC-authorized private navigation constellation to operate next to nation-state systems from the United States, Europe, China, and Russia.
The new authorization expands this authorization to Xona’s planned full constellation as the company scales production at its Burlingame production facility.
“A commercial company had never built a system like Pulsar, and no one had been authorized to introduce a new, high-power navigation signal alongside GPS.
By broadcasting a new proprietary signal adjacent to GPS, Pulsar has demonstrated it can integrate into many existing receivers without requiring an entirely new hardware ecosystem.