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This week, Spirent Communications (LSE: SPT) revealed its latest low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite solution software named SimORBIT, which contains a space-borne receiver developed by SpacePNT. The software is designed to aid developers in determining LEO orbits more accurately for GNSS/PNT lab testing.
SimORBIT calculates LEO orbits, their environments, and intricate characteristics to provide an accurate result to developers for testing. In addition, the software distinctively replicates LEO orbits so that simulations can replicate a realistic environment of a LEO satellite including gravitational and atmospheric impacts the LEO satellite may encounter in space.
As SimORBIT’s software is integrated with SpacePNT, the LEO application testing combined with more accurate GNSS location makes test results precise to developers.
With Spirent’s release of SimORBIT, developers can create non-ICD signals via I/Q injection, or by the Spirent “Flex” feature, generating space-centered PNT signals to be designed by labs as lifelike as possible.