The rise of LEO PNT – GPS World

January 11, 2026

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What’s new: An article providing and excellent overview and summary of where we are today with LEO PNT, and where things look like they are going.

Why its important: PNT from LEO can have lots of attributes that decrease users’ vulnerabilities compared to GNSS. Signals can be stronger, coded, on different frequencies, more accurate, etc.

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The rise of LEO PNT

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