About us
SpacePNT SA is an innovative, low cost GNSS receiver maker for the fast-growing New Space satellite market, delivering decimetre-level positioning and timing accuracy for single satellites and LEO constellations and highest signal reception sensitivity for Moon missions, all in real-time through its unique Positioning, Navigation and Timing technology.
SpacePNT works as an agile company, with a permanent core of talented people with many years of experience in their respective domains that have entirely developed NaviLEO/NaviMoon’s hardware and software technological platform.
Our Applications
Our Solutions
NaviLEO
SpacePNT has developed NaviLEO, a high performance GNSS receiver platform designed to meet the most stringent needs and challenges of the New Space market.
NaviMoon
NaviMoon is SpacePNT’s advanced autonomous GNSS receiver solution delivering <100 m accuracy at Moon altitude and removing the reliance on costly Earth station infrastructures for Moon missions.
NaviGEO
NaviGEO is SpacePNT’s high performance solution for launcher upper stages and in-orbit servicing vehicles, with dual-antenna inputs to provide optimal GNSS visibility from LEO to GEO, no matter the attitude.
SimORBIT
SimORBIT is a high-accuracy orbital modeling software for LEO satellite simulations, bringing a new level of accuracy and realism to LEO application testing by combining the simulation of precise LEO orbits and highly accurate GNSS signals.
Technology
Heritage
SpacePNT’s core team comes from the Swiss EPFL, ranked 14th university in the world, where it has pioneered the development of high sensitivity GNSS algorithms for space exploration missions, and from Syderal Swiss, that has designed electronics and software equipment for more than 50 ESA/NASA missions without any failure.
Contact
SpacePNT SA
Rue du Puits-Godet 12a
2000 Neuchatel
Switzerland
info@spacepnt.com
Latest news
SpacePNT joins ESA’s Genesis mission
Genesis is an ESA Navigation mission and it will be the first-ever satellite that foresees inclusion of all four space-based geodetic techniques on-board, namely Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS). The objective of the mission is to contribute […]
SpacePNT wins a contract to develop a LEO Robust Timing Subsystem
2024.11.22: Today, SpacePNT won a competitive contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for a project called “Robust Timing And Synchronization Techniques For Secure Communications”, aiming at developing a more robust timing subsystem targeting notably LEO satellite constellations providing secure communications, but also possibly MEO/GEO satellites. Background: Governmental communications make use of secured waveforms, which […]
SpacePNT completes the development of its NaviMoon GNSS receiver technology
Oct 24th 2024: The final presentation of the ESA project “Earth Moon GNSS Spaceborne Receiver For In-Orbit Demonstration” led by SpacePNT as prime with EECL as subcontractor was delivered online following an introduction from ESA representatives. Current GEO and GTO missions already exploit GNSS signals for in-orbit PNT. NASA’s MMS mission has recently demonstrated that […]
SpacePNT targets large LEO telecom constellations
July 11, 2024: SpacePNT featured amongst 4 other companies in GPS World July 2024 Cover Story “PNT without GNSS, New Systems Expand Options” by Matteo Luccio, discussing complementary sources of PNT with four companies that design, produce, and/or operate them. Image credit: GPS World External links: GPS World July 2024 – SpacePNT targets large LEO […]
SpacePNT successfully completes demonstration of its PNT technology in LEO orbit
May 15, 2024: SpacePNT SA, a Swiss innovative Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solution provider for the fast-growing New Space satellite market, today announced the completion of the in-orbit validation tests of its NaviLEOTM spaceborne GNSS receiver product platform designed to deliver breakthrough dm-level positioning and ns timing accuracy in LEO and highest signal reception […]
NaviLEO solution selected by D-Orbit for the NOX SAR satellite
August 30, 2023: NaviLEO spaceborne GNSS receiver solution has been selected by D-Orbit for the NOX Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite. The NOX satellite system has been selected for the IRIDE satellite constellation by the Italian public administration and NaviLEO is SpacePNT’s high performance GNSS receiver solution delivering autonomously and in real-time sub-decimeter-level positioning and […]
NaviLEO gets spaceborne!
June 13, 2023: NaviLEO is now moving in low Earth orbit after a successful deployment of its hosting Orbital Transfer Vehicle (D-Orbit ION SCV-011 satellite). The lift off happened on June 12th at 21:19 UTC aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, […]
NaviMoon ready for integration on SSTL Lunar Pathfinder satellite
June 9, 2023: The delivery for integration in the SSTL Lunar Pathfinder satellite of our NaviMoon Satnav Receiver has made the “ESA – Technology image of the week” headlines! Thanks to the whole SpacePNT team as well as all parties including ESA and our subcontractors (in particular EECL UK) who have been involved in this […]
SpacePNT Completes Integration Testing of NaviLEO
May 30, 2023: SpacePNT and D-Orbit completes integration testing of SpacePNT’s unique NaviLEO GNSS receiver technology onboard ION Orbital Transfer Vehicle (ION SCV011) that is scheduled to be launched from California Vandenberg Space Force Base this month of June 2023. NaviLEO is a low-cost, high performance multi-GNSS multi-frequency receiver product platform that has been developed […]
SpacePNT announces closing of a first funding run
January 20, 2023: In order to speed up industrialization and new products development, SpacePNT has successfully closed a first funding run with Business Angels Switzerland.