Septentrio and Xona sign MOU to Accelerate Adoption of Next-Era Navigation Technology

Septentrio demonstrates successful tracking of Xona’s first LEO PNT satellite, Pulsar-0, advancing the next generation resilient, high-accuracy positioning.   
 

Leuven, Belgium and Burlingame, California – October 7, 2025 – Septentrio, part of Hexagon, a leader in high-precision GNSS¹ technology, and Xona Space Systems, pioneer in low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite navigation, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to deepen their collaboration on next-generation positioning and timing solutions.

This agreement builds on Xona's recent successful launch of Pulsar-0, its first production class LEO PNT satellite. Within days of launch, Septentrio began tracking and analyzing Pulsar signals, an early milestone toward unlocking the service’s full potential.

Together, the companies will continue joint testing and validation to prove Pulsar’s full capabilities, including:
•    Native centimeter-level accuracy
•    100x stronger signal strength that reaches indoors and under dense foliage
•    Robust protection against jamming and spoofing²

Jan Van Hees, VP Business Development Septentrio and Brian Manning, CEO Xona Space shake hands after signing MOU.

Through this partnership, Septentrio and Xona will advance receiver development, evaluate real-world performance, and explore commercial opportunities across diverse set of industrial and defense applications. Potential use cases span drones and autonomous vehicles, precision agriculture, construction and mining, robotics, timing and critical infrastructure.

This collaboration marks a significant step toward addressing the growing demand for robust, high-precision navigation in challenging environments. The MOU underscores a shared vision of both companies to advance satellite-based navigation technology and unlock the potential of hybrid GNSS-LEO solutions.

¹ Global Navigation Satellite System including the American GPS, European Galileo, Russian GLONASS, Chinese BeiDou, Japan’s QZSS and India’s NavIC. These satellite constellations broadcast positioning information to receivers which use it to calculate their absolute position.

² Jamming is a form of radio interference which occurs when GPS frequency is overpowered by other radio waves, resulting in accuracy degradation or event total loss of position. Spoofing is a malicious form of radio interference, where misleading signals are sent into the receiver, resulting in faulty coordinates, which lead the target away from its predefined track.  
 

About Septentrio: 
Septentrio, part of Hexagon, is an ISO 9001 certified manufacturer of high-precision multi-frequency multi-constellation GPS/GNSS positioning technology for demanding applications. Septentrio provides reliable centimeter-level positioning solutions for industrial applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robotics, construction and mining, survey and mapping, maritime, logistics and scientific applications. 

Septentrio has its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium and has a world-wide presence with offices in Los Angeles, Shanghai, Seoul and Yokohama as well as numerous partners around the world. To learn more about Septentrio and its products, visit septentrio.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X , YouTube and GitHub.

About Hexagon
Hexagon is the global leader in measurement technologies. We provide the confidence that vital industries rely on to build, navigate, and innovate. From microns to Mars, our solutions ensure productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability in everything from manufacturing and construction to mining and autonomous systems.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,800 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.4bn EUR.

Learn more at hexagon.com.

About Xona
Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.

With Pulsar – the world’s most advanced positioning, and timing (PNT) satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit – Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible navigation service optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection against spoofing and jamming.

Learn more at xonaspace.com or follow us on LinkedIn.