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Xona Space Systems

operating 51–200 employees

Operates a Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation providing high-precision positioning, navigation, and timing services.

About

Xona Space Systems develops and operates Pulsar, a commercial LEO satellite constellation delivering centimeter-level positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. Planned for over 250 small satellites, Pulsar orbits 20-25 times closer to Earth than GPS, providing signal strength roughly 100 times stronger than legacy GNSS with encrypted, authenticated signals resistant to spoofing and jamming. The company launched Pulsar-0, its first production-class satellite, in June 2025 and is scaling deployment from its Burlingame, California headquarters.

Xona delivers PNT data as a service to commercial and government customers across autonomous vehicles, robotics, precision agriculture, critical infrastructure, and defense. The company has received contracts from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and SpaceWERX for GPS-alternative capabilities in contested environments and has raised over $130 million in total funding.

Products & Services

Commercial LEO satellite constellation delivering centimeter-level positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services with encrypted, anti-jam signals approximately 100x stronger than GPS.

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Overview

Founded 2019
HQ Burlingame, California, USA
Type Private Company

Leadership

Brian Manning
CEO
Tyler Reid
Co-Founder & CTO
Jonathan Wakenshaw
COO

Classification