Xona Space Systems

Xona Space Systems, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, is developing Pulsar, a next-generation satellite navigation service designed to complement and eventually surpass legacy GNSS systems like GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou. Unlike those Medium Earth Orbit constellations, Pulsar satellites operate in Low Earth Orbit, which the company says gives its signal roughly 100x the received power of GPS L1 C/A, along with cryptographically authenticated, jam- and spoof-resistant signals and centimeter-level accuracy for critical infrastructure, autonomy, defense, and transportation applications.

The company's flight heritage began with Huginn, a technology-demonstration smallsat launched May 25, 2022 on SpaceX Transporter-5, which became the first commercially funded satellite navigation payload to fly in LEO. It followed with Pulsar-0, its first production-class satellite (built on Aerospacelab's Versatile Satellite Platform), launched June 23, 2025 on SpaceX Transporter-14; Pulsar-0 broadcast the first fully authenticated navigation signal transmitted from LEO and has been undergoing live-sky testing with early commercial and government customers across the US and Canada.

Xona has raised over $280M across three rounds, including a $170M Series C announced June 2026 led by Mohari Ventures Natural Capital, with proceeds earmarked to scale satellite manufacturing at Xona's Burlingame factory and accelerate deployment toward a full ~258-300 satellite constellation.

Xona's stated mission is to deliver resilient, real-time, centimeter-accurate positioning to any device on Earth, targeting sectors including defense, autonomous vehicles, agriculture, aviation, maritime, telecom, construction, mining, and financial timing infrastructure that currently depend on vulnerable GPS signals.