Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space
The cash is roughly one third of the €233 million awarded for contracts related to position calculating satellite systems that was
The satellite will accomplish this by having the usual main Earth-measuring techniques co-located on board – including satellite navigation ranging, very-long-baseline interferometry, satellite laser ranging and a system that uses Doppler shift in radio signals between ground stations and satellites to determine satellite positions known as Doppler Orbitography and Radio positioning Integrated by Satellite . All will be synchronized by an ultra-stable oscillator .
"An updated International Terrestrial Reference Frame will have immediate benefits on satellite-based systems, impacting Galileo-enabled applications in fields like aviation, traffic management, autonomous vehicles, positioning and navigation," LEO-PNT is a small constellation of demonstration satellites that test the use of novel signals and frequency bands to improve positional accuracy, working in conjunction with Galileo and other satnav systems.
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