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Element 1 - Innovation in satellite Navigation
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Start date: 02/12/2026Duration: 18 MonthsDRIFT is an innovative initiative designed to transform the way lost shipping containers are detected, tracked, and recovered at sea. The project aims to develop an experimental, low-power tracking system capable of following a container from the moment it falls overboard to its potential sinking and retrieval. At its core, DRIFT combines GNSS positioning, IoT connectivity, and…Prime contractor
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Start date: 15/02/2026Duration: 22 MonthsThe main objective of this project is to design, develop, and validate a prototype ultra-large synthetic aperture array (ULSA) GNSS receiver for automotive applications, both hardware and software, based on a moving array antenna. While there is a lot of prior art on GNSS antenna array techniques, and some on extending a single GNSS antenna into a synthetic array, there are no documented real-life… -
Start date: 12/02/2026Duration: 18 MonthsThe aim of the project is to demonstrate selected time and frequency transfer (UTC) techniques based on fibre optic networks. The implementation of such techniques, complementary to GNSS, is crucial to ensure the proper functioning of both the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and the various sectors of the economy. The project involves demonstrating two alternative scenarios for…Prime contractor
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Name: PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
Country: Germany
Website: https://www.ptb.de/cms/en.html
Name: Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Science (CBK-PAN)
Country: Poland
Website: https://cbkpan.pl/en/
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Start date: 01/12/2025Duration: 18 MonthsBEACON aims to develop, implement, and demonstrate a Multi-array antenna receiver for navigation in C-band from LEO satellites developed under ESA’s FutureNAV LEO-PNT IoD. The development is to be based on a compact and relatively low-cost multi-array antenna with innovative advanced signal processing that exploits both pre- and post-correlation stages. Beamforming will be applied to…Subcontractors
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Start date: 20/11/2025Duration: 24 MonthsGNSS technologies typically suffer significant accuracy issues in urban environments due to signal degradation caused by obstacles like buildings which block and reflects GNSS signals leading to big positioning errors. The most dangerous impairments are due to specularly reflected Non-Line-Of-Sight (srNLOS) signals. Such errors can be attenuated through the application of the Intelligent Urban… -
Start date: 29/10/2025Duration: 18 MonthsThe main objective of this ITT is the study, design, implementation and demonstration of technologies, techniques and solutions to handle the presence of GNSS local effects (multipath, NLOS, jamming, spoofing) within the context of an EGNOS supported multi-sensor localization unit for railway users. This project aims at filling this gap by considering the following specific objectives: 1.…Prime contractor
Name: DLR - Institute of Communications and Navigation
Country: Germany
Website: https://www.dlr.de/kn/en/
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Start date: 20/10/2025Duration: 18 MonthsThe EL1-106 MAGIC aims to address the development of a TRL 6 antenna array navigation receiver prototype, enabling PNT solutions in the C-band frequency, using the coming LEO- PNT IoD C-band signals. The main objectives for this activity are: Develop a receiver with C-band signal processing capability (up to high signal-bandwidth) Extend the receiver processing to support ESA LEO-PNT…Subcontractors
Name: IDS – Chair of Integrated Digital Systems and Circuit Design at RWTH Aachen University
Country: Germany
Website: https://www.ids.rwth-aachen.de/
Name: DLR - Institute of Communications and Navigation
Country: Germany
Website: https://www.dlr.de/kn/en/
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Start date: 09/10/2025Duration: 23 MonthsThe objective of the activity is to investigate new concepts for ultra-accurate formation flying systems and initiate the develop a proof-of-concept software simulator on selected critical technologies. The activity will study and design concepts starting from the state-of-the-art satellite formation flying and considering cross-fertilization with technologies currently in use or under… -
Quantum sensing using Rydberg atoms offers a potential route to wide bandwidth, small, all optical reception of electromagnetic signals. The sensor is based on optical pumping of alkali metal vapour to a level which is resonant with incoming EM radiation; this impacts the optical transmittance of the vapour allowing optical readout of modulated signals. This work will assess the potential to… -
The work proposed focuses on developing AI-based anomaly detection software to detect anomalous signals from quantum sensors used within PNT applications. Infleqtion have been developing a novel approach to AI called “Contextual Machine Learning” which is inspired by quantum contextuality and has been shown to perform particularly well in settings where context can improve the AI model’s…Prime contractor
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