"The development of smaller satellites--in terms of size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C)--will yield greater affordability for our customers,” explains Mark Pisani, vice president and general manager, Precision Instruments and Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems, ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems. “A smaller satellite size will allow for improved launch vehicle selection flexibility.”
The study’s aim is to identify innovative ways to increase the affordability and sustainment of the GPS program through payload weight reduction, size, and power. The GPS NAVSAT will maintain similar performance capability to the existing GPS system, but will aid GPS end-users in signal-constrained environments, such as in urban or mountainous terrain.
Work on GPS NAVSAT is being performed in Clifton, N.J., and Bloomfield, N.J.
