NASA To Work With LocataNet For New UAV
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The privately-owned Australian company Locata, which invented a new positioning technology to supply accurate location in areas without GPS signal, was recently notified of some very good news. The American space agency, NASA, has declated it will install the company’s LocataNet as the main navigational technology in a UAV research conducted in the Langley research center in Hampton, Virginia.
NASA Langley, established in 1917 by the US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, is the oldest of NASA’s field centers and well known for its long history of aeronautics research. These days, however, it’s Langley’s prestige as a key center for American UAS research.
Langley center is entrusted with accurately and scientifically assessing various aspects of technology and security for a new UAV currently in development. Locata’s transmitters can transmit highly synchronized signals, thus creating an accurate positioning system, named LocataNet. This will be the system to provide NASA with a non-GPS navigation, location and timing system.
“Locata is proud and delighted to have received an order for NASA’s first LocataNet,” said Nunzio Gambale, Locata CEO. “Globally significant installations like this prove Locata’s new technology is delivering unprecedented levels of performance to many important new applications. As our technology rollout begins to gain pace, the exceptional value Locata brings to next-gen mobile apps has attracted interest from players all over the world. In fact, our list of relationships is now looking like a roster of the world’s creme-de-la-creme. I honestly can’t think of a better or more prestigious name than NASA to add to our growing partner list.”
Gambale added that he is very excited by Locata advancing the UAV systems and stated that almost all portable machines and devices, whether on the road, in the air, at a port or even a cellular phone, are critically dependant on reliable, accurate positioning.
