Xona Space Systems Canada, Inc.: federal grants and contributions

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Xona Space Systems Canada, Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 5 agreements; $1.6M value; 2 departments; 2 programs.

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5agreements
$1.6Mvalue
2departments
2programs

Largest agreements

Development of a low Earth orbit (LEO) Satellite Navigation Receiver and demonstration of PNT enhancements$959Kvalue2024start2026end

Access to improved navigation and time is paramount to the modernization and automation of several industries, including agriculture, natural resource management (mining), and transportation. This project focusses on development of Xona-enabled user equipment (receiver) technology for use within heavy industry applications, in particular precision agriculture and mining. This includes field-testing of the signals and hardware, testing of live satellite transmissions, and development of an in-house Xona PULSAR receiver. The in-house receiver will serve as a baseline to showcase various features

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Enabling Advanced Remote Sensing and Navigation Applications from a Commercial PNT Satellite Constellation$495Kvalue2021start2024end

The project will demonstrate the benefits enabled by a new generation of commercial position, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellites developed by Xona Space Systems. Ionospheric space weather, especially in the Canadian Arctic, can produce severe degradation of navigation and communications capability over land, sea and air. Xona’s powerful signals coupled with large satellite constellation size will produce an unprecedented quantity of high-quality radionavigation data that can be exploited in the domains of remote sensing and Earth Observation. By incorporating ionospheric data extracted fr

  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Initial Development of Services Operation for Position, Navigation, and Timing(PNT) Service$75.0Kvalue2023start2024end

This project is to create a Services Operation for space-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) service in Canada. It explores the development of data and other services deployed on cloud infrastructure to interface with customers both via internet and satellite connection.

Feasibility study of Commercial Satellite Navigation: Space Segment Architecture$50.0Kvalue2022start2023end

Xona Space Systems is building satellite navigation infrastructure in low Earth orbit (LEO) to deliver high performance Position, Navigation, and Time (PNT) services to industries who have critical reliance. This feasibility study examines space segment architectures for deployment, manufacturing, and performance for delivering these PNT and related services.

PRA - Operational & Product Trade Study on Space Systems Manufacturing for Commercial Navigation Satellites$46.0Kvalue2024start2024end

The project aims to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the technical and economic aspects of manufacturing satellite subsystems, entire satellite buses, and a comparison of options for Xona’s PULSAR constellation in a local context to Montréal/Canada.

Departments

Canadian Space Agency2agreements$1.5Mvalue1programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology

All grants from Canadian Space Agency

National Research Council Canada3agreements$171Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20242agreements$1.0Mvalue2programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20231agreements$75.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20221agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20211agreements$495Kvalue1programs
  • Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.