{"title":"Ensuring PNT resilience in a time of navigation uncertainty","authors":"Joshua J.R. Critchley-Marrows , Quentin Verspieren","doi":"10.1016/j.spacepol.2024.101665","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services have become the backbone to nearly all facets of modern life. Any disruption of space-based PNT services, whether intentional or accidental, could have dramatic consequences for national security, public safety and economic prosperity. In consequence, states owning, operating or merely using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and there regional counterparts, have grown extremely concerned with the reliance of their infrastructure, and its ability to provide stable and trustworthy PNT signals. This viewpoint provides a summary to global approaches of the state's ‘ensurance’ of PNT system resilience. Clear themes are highlighted and discussed, suggesting pathways forward to delivering a PNT infrastructure that can ensure the trust of governments and their users.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45924,"journal":{"name":"Space Policy","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101665"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Space Policy","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964624000560","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services have become the backbone to nearly all facets of modern life. Any disruption of space-based PNT services, whether intentional or accidental, could have dramatic consequences for national security, public safety and economic prosperity. In consequence, states owning, operating or merely using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and there regional counterparts, have grown extremely concerned with the reliance of their infrastructure, and its ability to provide stable and trustworthy PNT signals. This viewpoint provides a summary to global approaches of the state's ‘ensurance’ of PNT system resilience. Clear themes are highlighted and discussed, suggesting pathways forward to delivering a PNT infrastructure that can ensure the trust of governments and their users.
期刊介绍:
Space Policy is an international, interdisciplinary journal which draws on the fields of international relations, economics, history, aerospace studies, security studies, development studies, political science and ethics to provide discussion and analysis of space activities in their political, economic, industrial, legal, cultural and social contexts. Alongside full-length papers, which are subject to a double-blind peer review system, the journal publishes opinion pieces, case studies and short reports and, in so doing, it aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and opinions and a means by which authors can alert policy makers and international organizations to their views. Space Policy is also a journal of record, reproducing, in whole or part, official documents such as treaties, space agency plans or government reports relevant to the space community. Views expressed in the journal are not necessarily those of the editors or members of the editorial board.