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British defense technology company QinetiQ announced a major breakthrough in developing a robust navigation receiver that will use the Galileo, Europe’s satellite navigation system — in particular, the secured Public Regulated Service.
QinetiQ’s new high-performance, next-generation GNSS receiver is multi‑constellation and multi‑frequency. It is designed to process encrypted signals from the Galileo PRS service as well as open services such as GPS. Qinetiq introduced the receiver in July at the UK Space Conference in Liverpool.
The receiver is a significant step towards developing an end-user product for navigation, tracking and timing, QinetiQ said. It will offer highly secure, accurate and reliable position, velocity and timing intended for users with a mission-critical need such as governments, the military and emergency services across Europe, the statement said.
"Our next step will be working to refine the product
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family and preparing it to be brought to market, which includes developing additional features and reducing its size to that of a postage stamp, in a form factor similar to our existing, highly successful Q20 receiver," said Nigel Davies, head of QinetiQ’s Secured Navigation Group. "We have full confidence in this product and are proud to be at the forefront of this exciting new phase in European navigation."
The prototype is a multi-constellation, multi-frequency, all‑in‑view receiver that can receive and process the Galileo PRS as well as Galileo Open Service and GPS Standard Positioning Service, according to QinetiQ. It is also designed to utilize other GNSS signals including the Russian GLONASS and Chinese Beidou systems as well as space-based augmentation services such as WAAS and EGNOS.
It is expected that a suite of products will be ready by 2020 to coincide with the completion of the Galileo project, which will be the world’s third GNSS to be completed after the U.S. and Russian systems.
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