Business News
Rennes, France, 19
th
April 2023,
Syrlinks, subsidiary of Safran Electronics & Defense, releases N-CUBE, a new
generaon of GNSS Soware Dened Radio payload to address LEO-PNT applicaons
New Product
Aer having democrazed very high-precision in-ight orbit determinaon (N-SPHERE) and having become the world
reference for atomic me and precision frequencies (Galileo and other global programs), Safran presents N-CUBE: the
cornerstone of the new generaon of space PNT programs in low orbit (LEO PNT).
N-CUBE is a new high-end soware-dened radio GNSS payload for Posioning-Navigaon-Time (PNT) applicaons. This
payload is parcularly suitable for nanosatellites and satellite cubes operang in low orbit (LEO, for Low Earth Orbit). N-CUBE
comes as a unique soluon that combines a high-performance GNSS receiver, a GNSS signal processor and a RF output stage.
The receiver and the processor implement the latest state-of-the-art posioning and synchronizaon techniques, to reach
top class of performances for Real-Time Precise Onboard Orbit Determinaon (P2OD) and accurate me synchronizaon.
The embedded RF output stage is used to retransmit a GNSS signal from the LEO orbit to the ground and to ensure a LEO-
PNT service coverage.
N-CUBE inherits from more than 10 years of Syrlinks’ experience in the GNSS domain and has been jointly designed with
CNES (The French Space Agency). N-CUBE can synchronize from dierent GNSS systems including GPS, GALILEO and BEIDOU.
In terms of posioning, N-CUBE provides accuracy beer than 0.3 meters, thanks to a unique algorithm (referenced as
«Bolero») developed by CNES.
Its Soware-Dened-Radio (SDR) core architecture brings maximum exibility and enables implementaon of specic
soware-based processing to address a wide range of applicaons. The retransmit signal can be fully adapted for the
applicaon. It could us the GNSS bands or other bands such as S-Band as requested. The product is versale and can be
congured as needed to meet all LEO-PNT applicaons.
The product design belongs to the Syrlinks “New Space III” product category. This Product Assurance subclass perfectly
meets the requirements of Nano/CubeSat missions, targeng a typical 2/5-year lifeme at Low Earth Orbit with a maximum
Total Ionized radiaon Dose of 12 krad.
« With the emergence of applicaons that require a high level of GNSS service performances, coverage
and resilience such as autonomous car, Vehicle-to-Vehicle communicaon, IoT, etc. we are facing to a
growing interest to implement ecient LEO-PNT satellite services. With N-CUBE we come at the right
me on the market with a unique soluon to demonstrate the future capabilies of such service in
space.» says Eric Pinson, Director of Space acvity at Syrlinks.
«The release of this new product is the result of several years of development with our GNSS experts.
It also inherits a rst project realized for an operator customer and the ight of the rst product is
expected by the end of the year. The future looks very promising with already several new LEO-PNT
projects idened.» says Fabien Sépot, GNSS product manager at Syrlinks.
N-CUBE is highlight on Syrlinks booth #529 during 38
th
Space Symposium in
Colorado Springs, CO, USA from April 17
th
to 20
th
, 2023.
N-CUBE - High-End GNSS SDR payload - © Syrlinks
Estelle Thébault
communication@syrlinks.com / +33 (0)2.99.00.94.52
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ABOUT SYRLINKS
Syrlinks, is a French company, founded in 2011
near Rennes. The company designs and delivers
worldwide RF communicaon products to address
four market segments: Space, Defense, Safety and
Time-frequency.
The company which today consists of more than
160 people has successfully delivered more than
1000 Flight models for Space, which represents
more than 800 years of on-orbit me with 100%
reliability!
The Space business unit has developed four product
ranges: TT&C, Telemetry Transmiers, GNSS and SDR
Payload. This meets dierent market segments in
terms of satellite integraon (Nano/Cubesat, Micro
and Mini satellites) and in terms of applicaons
such as Earth Observaon, Satcom, GNSS Services,
LEO PNT, Spectrum monitoring, etc.
Syrlinks masters the design of reliable product based
on COTS (Components-O-the Shelf) components,
enabling cost-reducon for New Space. Its products
have been used in many high-prole space missions
such as Rosea, Myriades/Myriades-evoluons,
Proba-V, OneWeb Satellites, Pléïades-Neo, Argos
Neo, Microscope, etc.
Syrlinks works with presgious clients and partners
such as Airbus, OneWeb, the CNES (the French
naonal agency for space studies), the European
Space Agency (ESA), Thales Alenia Space, and
Synspecve.
Please note that Syrlinks has become a Safran
company.
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