MILAN — Japanese startup ArkEdge Space won a contract from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA to study the feasibility of establishing a constellation of position, navigation and timing satellites in low-Earth orbit. The project, announced Oct. 17 at the International Astronautical Congress here, is aimed at providing high-precision, global PNT signals. ArkEdge declined to comment on the value of the JAXA contract. Government agencies around the world are exploring ways to augment and back-up the Global Positioning System and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems that are susceptible to natural…
