Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Satellites

Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Satellites

Topic:

Infrastructure

Year:

2017

Country:

China

European Multinational Efforts

PNT satellite constellations continued growing during 2017. Deployments led to a ##% increase in the in-orbit PNT satellite population as a result of Chinese, European, ...

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Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) provide positioning, navigation, and timing information. These satellite systems are augmented by ground stations which can be used as reference points to increase the accuracy of information derived from the satellite signals.

PNT Satellite Numbers Through the Years

Exhibits from each report through the years showing positioning, navigation, and timing satellite numbers.

Russian PNT Satellites (GLONASS)

US PNT Satellites (GPS)

2016 - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems

Year: 2016

Country: China, European Multinational Efforts, India, Japan, Russia, United States

As the world’s population continued integrating space positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies and services, the number of PNT satellites continued to multiply in 2016, growing slightly more than ##% from 2015. Relative newcomers to PNT space operations, such as Europe, India, and...

2015 - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems

Year: 2015

Country: China, European Multinational Efforts, India, Japan, Russia, United States

The number of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellites orbiting the Earth increased by ##% from the end of 2014 through 2015. Of the ## nations fielding space-based PNT satellites or systems, the biggest contributors to the number of satellites in 2015 were the European Union and China....

2014 - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems

Year: 2014

Country: China, European Multinational Efforts, India, Russia, United States

The military and commercial value of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems has gained such prominence that PNT systems are often considered to be critical infrastructure. The proliferation of smartphones and other consumer devices that rely on PNT services has spread this dependence...

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Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Satellites

Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Satellites

Chinese PNT Satellites (BeiDou)

European PNT Satellites (Galileo)

Indian PNT Satellites (NavIC)

Japanese PNT Satellites (QZSS)

PNT Ground Networks

PNT Satellite Numbers Through the Years

Russian PNT Satellites (GLONASS)

US PNT Satellites (GPS)

2016 - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems

2015 - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems

2014 - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems

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