Jackson Labs Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that designs and manufactures timing- and frequency-generation equipment for the telecom, defense, engineering, test & measurement, broadcast, and research markets, announced the availability of the STL-2600 Satellite Timing and Location (STL) receiver designed in partnership with Satelles, Inc., the service provider of STL. The commercial receiver provides a completely GNSS-independent, low-cost capability to generate UTC nanosecond timing and meters-accurate positioning anywhere in the world while operating in a way that is similar to what a GPS user is accustomed to, but completely without GPS or GNSS.
The STL signal has 30db (1,000x) higher power compared to GPS signals, allowing these receivers to operate deep indoors, independent of any GPS/GNSS signal. The STL-260o receiver provides a low SWaP-C UTC-time and location capability with sub-45ns RMS typical timing and better than five-meter typical location accuracy.
“Useful for non-GNSS-based E911 location and UTC(NIST) timing applications, the STL-2600 receiver is deployable today to fulfill critical infrastructure PNT objectives such as those outlined in Executive Order 13905 on the responsible use of PNT in the U.S. and the emerging mandates for a GNSS-independent backup solution in Europe,” said Said Jackson, president of Jackson Labs.
The STL-2600 receiver is also useful in marine applications where GNSS signals are regularly denied or manipulated and for stationary high-accuracy timing applications such as 5G. The STL-2600 receiver can be directly connected to JLT’s novel GPS Transcoder products for glue-less retrofit capability of existing customer legacy GPS-only receiver systems to Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou, QZSS, and SBAS as well as adding the STL and optional atomic holdover capability to these legacy systems.
The small receiver module combines a custom-designed STL L1 LEO receiver and a latest-generation concurrent-GNSS receiver with a disciplined high-stability reference oscillator sub-system on one circuit board.
