Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a contract with European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver an end to end solution for the LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Positioning Navigation and Timing) orbit demonstrator.
This contract includes the space (five satellites to be launched), ground and users segments, the on-orbit operations (including deorbiting), the launch, the test user segment, experimentation and service demonstration in different industries representative user environments.
This constellation will work in combination with Galileo and other satellite navigation systems to provide guaranteed centimeter location accuracy, robustness, resistance against jamming and spoofing as well as low latency (very fast acquisition).
LEO-PNT will, thereby, allow to serve emerging applications as high level autonomy cars including persistent coverage in dense urban areas, unmanned aerial and maritime vehicles or 5G/6G ground telecommunication network synchronization.
