TrustPoint Demonstrates Non-GPS Navigation for LEO Satellites

"WASHINGTON — TrustPoint, a Virginia-based startup developing a network of navigation satellites in low Earth orbit, said it has successfully transmitted time and tracking signals from a ground station to a spacecraft in orbit, marking a key step in its effort to build a GPS-independent system.

The company developed a ground station called LEONS, shorthand for low Earth orbit navigation system, designed to provide GPS-independent positioning, navigation and timing signals to satellites in space, said TrustPoint’s chief executive and co-founder Patrick Shannon.

“It transmits signals up to LEO satellites, tells them where they are and what time it is,” he said."

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