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What’s new: A representative from DLR at the Munich Satnav Summit describing German resilient PNT in terms of improvements to space-based services.
Why its important:
- Sufficient PNT resilience requires diverse delivery methods, one of which can be via space-based signals.
- We are pretty sure Germany is participating in NEAT-FT (Network for European Accurate Time and Frequency a fiber-based system.
- We hope they are interested in other systems as well to form a resilient Core National PNT Architecture.
What else to know:
- The speaker was from a space agency and at a space-based forum. it could be that he knew of non-space-based projects and simply did not mention them.
- Or it could be the old “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Especially if your job and/or bosses prevent you from looking outside your stovepipe for solutions. In other words, since he works in a space job, maybe he is only allowed to consider and discuss space-based solutions.
