Skykraft has signed a Participating Project Partner Agreement with several Australian and Indian organisations as the company progresses work on demonstrating a Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) constellation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
"We are proud to have been selected to lead this joint Australia/India project which will provide a strong foundation for both countries to develop and launch a next generation PNT system. We are looking forward to working with our partners from both nations to successfully deliver the project and encourage development of an operational independent PNT system," said the CEO of Skykraft, Michael Frater.
The collaboration includes RMIT University, Indian Institute of Science, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, FrontierSI, University of Newcastle, University of New South Wales and Curtin University.
The project will demonstrate the feasibility of large-scale constellations in LEO, address the vulnerability of existing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in denied environments, investigate additional applications for PNT signals that can be exploited from LEO and, through the demonstration of the resilience of large-scale constellations (which can be easily updated and reconstituted), provide a roadmap to enable collaborative LEO-PNT.