Iridium to ship PNT ASIC chip next year to protect mass‑market devices from GNSS jamming and spoofing

Iridium plans to release next year a tiny PNT ASIC microchip that embeds complementary Positioning, Navigation and Timing protections into mass‑market devices to guard against GNSS jamming, spoofing and time disruptions. The product reinforces the L‑band operator’s core strengths as SpaceX’s Starlink pushes into adjacent direct‑to‑device services.

Discovered 2025-10-27T00:23:39.218531-07:00 | 2025-10-27T00:23:39.218531-07:00

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The chip provides on‑device mitigation for GNSS jamming, spoofing and time disruptions, enabling broad deployment of complementary PNT as Iridium expands into direct‑to‑device and NTN services — relevant as the direct‑to‑device satellite market readies for liftoff.
The timing aligns with Iridium’s push into tested complementary PNT services under a U.S. DOT contract, offering a software/hardware stack for GPS backup and resilience when GNSS is degraded or denied (U.S. DOT contract for complementary PNT).
The announcement addresses an escalating operational threat: industry groups and recent incidents have intensified calls for accelerated GNSS hardening and mitigation, underscoring demand for embedded protection in civilian and defense platforms (industry groups press DoD and DOT on GPS jamming and spoofing and NATO moves to counter suspected Russian GPS jamming).

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