The Chennai-based company is developing low Earth orbit positioning and timing services aimed at drones, autonomous vehicles and infrastructure that needs centimetre accuracy.
Almost everything that moves autonomously depends on satellites more than 20,000 kilometres away.
GPS and its equivalents were designed in the 1970s for military and then civilian use.
They deliver position to within five to ten metres, updated once a second.
For a person following a map is enough.
But for a drone landing on a platform, five to ten metres isn't enough.
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Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.
We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a set of reference…
Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.
