GPS, But 100 Times Stronger

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography by MapScaping

Jul 29, 202643:14Science & Medicine

My guest today is Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona, a company building the first commercial satellite navigation system. We get into why Tyler and his team are moving satellites into low Earth orbit and what that u...

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