New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other global navigation satellite systems operating from higher orbital altitudes—enabling greater location accuracy within dense cities, under thick foliage, and even inside buildings.

An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time.

By maintaining a steady presence over the poles, the Pulsar network will give aviation crews, shipping vessels, and remote communities a reliable source of positioning and timing data. This enhanced resilience is increasingly vital to Canada’s defence sector and sovereignty operations in the Arctic.

For Deifel, resilient PNT is no longer a future planning problem. “Over the past year, Xona has demonstrated on orbit what many inside government long believed would be impossible: broadcasting a new navigation signal alongside GPS while materially improving signal strength, precision and protection against jamming and spoofing,” he said.

Xona wants to do to navigation what Space X did to rockets: build a better product at far lower cost while building products prized by consumers and enterprises.