The Journal of Space Commerce

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ESA Plans for Demonstration of Low-Orbiting Navigation Satellites

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Tom Patton
Oct 28, 2022
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Satellite navigation is headed closer to users. The ESA Navigation Directorate is planning an in-orbit demonstration with new navigation satellites that will orbit just a few hundred miles up in space, supplementing Europe’s high-orbit Galileo satellites. Operating added-value signals, these novel so-called ‘LEO-PNT’ satellites will investigate a new mu…

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