The SkyFox Labs piNAV-NG/FM (Flight Model) is a 15 Channel GPS L1 C/A Receiver designed for CubeSats. It is a long-term optimized CubeSat GPS Receiver with firmware based on many years of orbital operations heritage intended for modern satellites, CubeSats, and a majority of scientific/business/university projects, where the satellite development team requires a module with limited size and power budget.

It is an Ultra-Low Power (125 mW @ 3.3V) CubeSat GPS receiver with a Dead Reckoning Orbital Propagator (DROP). The DROP algorithm serves as a mathematical solution implemented in the piNAV-NG firmware to overcome the GPS PVT/Fix dropouts with no need to uplink TLE or other orbital elements from the ground, nor many hours of continual operations to collect the orbital data.

Do More. | Save Power. | Operate Longer.

Extremely low nanometer-scale ASICs transistors in advanced commercial and terrestrial GPS receiver chips tweaked for orbital operations are optimized for very low power, but their size make them more vulnerable to cosmic rays, bit flips and firmware errors over the course of the orbit.

piNAV-NG utilizes a solid 45nm process chip for the Correlator core and another 90 nm for PVT, signal acquisition unit and firmware storage memory. That makes a whole lot of difference in a lifetime, whilst maintaining industry lowest power consumption for space-grade receivers. 

Connect the proper GPS antenna via RF Coaxial cable and DC power from 2.7 to 3.3V at only 125 mW and start to receive first signals from GPS constellation with piNAV-NG GPS Receiver!

piNAV GPS Receivers | 10+ Years on the GNSS Market

First piNAV CubeSat GPS Receiver (aka picosatellite NAVigator) was introduced in 2014, first delivered in 2015 and first flight to space occured in 2017. More than 50+ units have been delivered to various customers since then.

OPTIONS

The piNAV-NG - CubeSat GPS Receiver is available as:

piNAV-NG/FM (Flight Model)

piNAV-NG/EM (Engineering Model)

piNAV-NG/EK (Evaluation Kit)