Last week Xona Space Systems confirmed that it had succeeded in raising $170 million in Series C funding. A few hours later it formally opened its in-house satellite production facility at Burlingame, California (near San Francisco airport).

The Xona plan is to build a fleet of 259 specialised satellites to “unlock the potential of tomorrow’s technologies by providing the most robust and accurate navigation and timing services on Earth”.

The company claims that its Xona Pulsar craft is the “world’s most advanced and resilient positioning, navigation, and timing infrastructure in the world, built to bring real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth”.

Moreover, its technology will beam signals strong enough to reach “where GPS cannot” and bring reliable coverage when users are under trees, indoors and deep within urban environments. Reports say that its signals will be 170-times stronger that conventional GPS.

The filing confirms plans for 259 satellites in a LEO constellation at 53° and 97° inclination & 1080km altitude to provide GNSS in L+C band based on GPS L1/L2/L5 & Galileo E1/E5 signals. Initial 34 sats to cover North America & Europe.

The company launched its first test craft in June last year and the company says it expects to start service in 2027.

End users are targeted as autonomous vehicles, agriculture, maritime, surveying, and defence industries

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