the first GPS payload + antenna from Xona

A fantastic new addition to the space museum at work.

You can see a standard L-band antenna array in the outer ring of 12 squares and the next-gen C-band array in the inner circle of 5. Xona is building a constellation of GPS sats in LEO to 100x the power and resiliency of existing GPS systems, even enabling it to work indoors.

Xona’s first demo sats were named Huginn and Muninn after the two ravens of the Norse god Odin (meaning "thought" and "memory"). Muninn would have been the second to fly, but they learned all they needed to learn from Huginn… and so I have the flight version to save for posterity.