SpaceX touts Starlink as GPS alternative in FCC PNT push

SpaceX touts Starlink as GPS alternative in FCC PNT push

SpaceX is positioning its Starlink constellation as a viable GPS alternative. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX stated that it could leverage Starlink satellites for next-generation Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions. GPS has been run through a single provider in the United States, the Defense Department. The FCC intends to use Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions to complement GPS…

SpaceX to FCC: We Can Supply a GPS Alternative Through Starlink

The company tells the US regulator it's already working on a Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) system for its cellular Starlink service.

NextNav's PNT Proposal Is Hotly Contested in Comments to FCC

NextNav on Wednesday called on the FCC to move forward with an NPRM looking at its proposal for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) in the 902-928 MHz band as an alternative to GPS. Others urged the FCC to encourage multiple...

SpaceX Details Starlink’s Existing and Potential PNT Capabilities in Response to FCC Inquiry - Inside GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design

SpaceX has submitted reply comments to the FCC describing how its Starlink LEO satellite system currently provides and could further support positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. The filing was submitted as part of the FCC’s ongoing Notice of Inquiry (NOI) into promoting resilient and diverse PNT capabilities across the United States. FCC’s Initiative on PNT Resilience The FCC’s NOI (WT Docket No. 25-110), titled “Promoting the Dev…

SpaceX Proposes Starlink Can Deliver Sat Nav to Complement GPS

SpaceX has proposed that its Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds to the UK and beyond via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), can offer Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions to complement GPS. This would meet the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) desire for an alternative to GPS. At present Starlink has around 7,500 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (c.3,300 are v2 Mini / G…