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2026-03-18 - Funding - Advanced Navigation raises USD 110M Series C - Airtree Ventures led the round, with Quadrant Private Equity and Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation participating. More than 100,000 systems were deployed globally, and over 80 percent of revenue came from the United States and Europe. The… - source: advancednavigation.com 2026-02-04 - Demonstration - Advanced Navigation tests Boreas D90 stack at U.S. Army APEX - The four-wheel-drive vehicle demonstration took place during night operations at a rural New Mexico site with deliberate GNSS jamming. Boreas D90 and AdNav Intelligence were evaluated with a laser velocity sensor and, separately, a wheel-speed encoder. The… - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-12-03 - Contract Award - Kongsberg orders more than 50 Boreas D90 systems - The Boreas D90 units are intended to support precision pointing and line-of-sight stability when GNSS is compromised or denied. Advanced Navigation said its vertically integrated production was part of the selection because it could meet the required… - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-09-08 - Org Change - Advanced Navigation expands across the US and Europe for PNT production - Advanced Navigation announced plans to establish PNT Centers of Excellence across the United States and Europe, beginning with the United Kingdom The centers are intended to scale manufacturing, engineering, support, and servicing for inertial navigation… - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-09-03 - Product Launch - Advanced Navigation launches Boreas 50 Series for GPS-denied environments - Advanced Navigation launched the Boreas 50 Series, a compact north-seeking fibre-optic gyroscope inertial navigation system The product is designed for resilient navigation in contested and GPS-denied operating environments The launch extends the company's… - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-08-11 - Demonstration - BHP trial records sub-0.1% drift with Boreas and Chimera Land - The trial took place at Callio Mine in Pyhäjärvi, Finland. The hybrid navigation system operated through a GNSS-denied underground environment. Measured inertial-navigation drift remained below 0.1 percent over the route. - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-07-14 - Demonstration - Advanced Navigation demonstrated navigation technology in an underground transport station where satellite positioning… - Testing took place at Castle Hill Station in Sydney The system combined phased-array ultra-wideband with Bluetooth Low Energy Positioning accuracy was reported within 10 to 30 centimetres without satellite navigation - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-06-03 - Market Signal - Hydrus survey documents coral loss at Hall Bank reef - The mission gathered underwater data at one of the world’s southernmost reef ecosystems. The survey revealed bleaching and fragmentation across the observed coral habitat. The event records a bounded scientific survey, not a standing deployment. - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-05-20 - Demonstration - Advanced Navigation validates laser-aided inertial navigation - Across five road trials, the hybrid system averaged 0.053% distance error against a separately logged GNSS reference. A fixed-wing trial over 545 kilometres produced a final distance error of 0.045%. The tests combined a fibre-optic-gyroscope inertial system… - source: advancednavigation.com 2025-03-04 - Partnership - Advanced Navigation signs MBDA collaboration on resilient navigation technology - Advanced Navigation signed an MoU with MBDA to co-develop a resilient navigation system integrating MBDA's NILEQ positioning technology The collaboration is aimed at airborne systems that need passive navigation over land without GPS - source: advancednavigation.com 2024-12-13 - Partnership - Advanced Navigation supports Rheinmetall’s Australian defense export - This follows a previous deal which saw Advanced Navigation provide 200+ FOG INS to Rheinmetall in 2021 for the Boxer CRV. APNT Defense FOG GNSS/INS About Advanced Navigation Advanced Navigation is a global leader in navigation and autonomous systems. - source: advancednavigation.com 2024-12-13 - Demonstration - Tamboritha selects Boreas A70 for Blackwater ROV navigation - The system supports precise navigation where magnetic interference makes conventional heading sensors unreliable. The documented operating environment includes zero-visibility water. Tamboritha selected the A70 while balancing delivery schedule, cost and… - source: advancednavigation.com 2024-09-23 - Commercial Order - Hanwha orders 138 Advanced Navigation Boreas D70 systems - Advanced Navigation will supply 138 Boreas D70 inertial navigation systems. The systems are part of Australia’s LAND 400 Phase 3 programme. The DFOG-based units support navigation where GNSS is degraded or unavailable. - source: advancednavigation.com 2024-09-11 - Partnership - Hanwha and Advanced Navigation sign assured-navigation MOU - The parties plan to co-develop navigation systems for contested and satellite-denied environments. The proposed solutions could enter Hanwha Aerospace’s global supply chain. - source: advancednavigation.com 2024-04-02 - Deployment - Two Hydrus AUVs survey a 64-metre shipwreck off Rottnest Island - Two Hydrus units completed three survey missions in under five hours. The vehicles captured simultaneous georeferenced 4K imagery and video over a 64-metre historic wreck. Curtin University HIVE created a high-resolution 3D reconstruction, and the resulting… - source: advancednavigation.com 2024-03-26 - Partnership - PAL Robotics integrates Advanced Navigation Orientus into humanoid robots - AI applications for boosting interactions between humans and robots Author PAL Robotics Category EU Projects Date July 26, 2022 --> --> AI applications: at the core of our robots and collaborative projects Artificial. At PAL Robotics , AI is used by our… - source: advancednavigation.com 2024-02-21 - Product Launch - Space Machines integrates Boreas X90 into Optimus spacecraft - The Boreas X90 is a digital fibre-optic gyroscope inertial navigation system. Its role is to support precise manoeuvring by the Optimus vehicle in orbit. Space Machines describes Optimus as an orbital transport and roadside-assistance platform. - source: advancednavigation.com 2023-09-26 - Facility Opening - Advanced Navigation opens high-tech robotics manufacturing facility - Advanced Navigation opened a new robotics manufacturing facility at UTS Tech Lab in Australia The site was presented as a high-tech production base for autonomous systems and navigation technologies The facility expansion supported manufacturing scale-up for… - source: advancednavigation.com 2023-09-20 - Demonstration - Hydrus AUV completes tropical-water hazard simulation - The test range has been open to industry since 2022. Hydrus operated in tropical waters that present difficult conditions for underwater robots. The exercise evaluated autonomous hazard-identification work rather than a commercial deployment. - source: advancednavigation.com 2023-06-28 - Award - Advanced Navigation receives Australian Space Agency lunar exploration grant - Advanced Navigation received a Moon to Mars Initiative grant from the Australian Space Agency The award was AUD 5.2 million to support development of the LUNA navigation sensor for lunar landing and exploration The grant supports autonomous navigation… - source: advancednavigation.com 2023-04-18 - Facility Opening - Advanced Navigation Unveils Australia’s Largest Subsea Robotics Centre - The site brings engineering, manufacturing and testing work for subsea navigation and robotics into one centre. Advanced Navigation positioned the facility to accelerate new and existing underwater products. The expansion added subsea-engineering capacity in… - source: advancednavigation.com 2023-04-15 - Funding - Advanced Navigation Secures $20 Million to Enhance Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Funding aims to support the development of cutting-edge navigation solutions for robotics Investment will accelerate growth in autonomous vehicle technologies and global market presence Advanced Navigation plans to expand its workforce and innovation efforts… - source: techcrunch.com 2023-04-05 - Market Signal - Cloud Ground Control adds 5G fleet control for emergency-response drones - CGConnect links drones and robotic vehicles to the browser-based fleet platform. The connection supports live video, command and control over cellular networks. Target missions include search and rescue, emergency response and disaster relief. - source: advancednavigation.com 2022-10-10 - Contract Award - BAE Systems selects Motus for Swedish CV90 upgrades - The award covered the Motus inertial-navigation solution. Advanced Navigation described it as the third major phase of the programme. The combined value of the three phases exceeded USD 4.2 million. - source: advancednavigation.com 2022-07-19 - Demonstration - LimnTech LifeMark system integrates Certus INS - Certus improved LifeMark operation in areas with variable GNSS reception. The integration replaced an earlier Spatial Dual configuration. LimnTech retained a cost-effective upgrade path for existing LifeMark customers. - source: advancednavigation.com 2022-05-05 - Acquisition - Shaping The Future Of Photonic Sensing: Advanced Navigation Acquires Vai Photonics - Aircraft with an electric vertical takeoff and landing system such as flying taxis will greatly benefit from this technology. Photonic technology will be critical to the overall success, safety and reliability of these new systems. Vai Photonics sensors will… - source: advancednavigation.com 2022-04-01 - Product Launch - Advanced Navigation launches Hydrus autonomous underwater vehicle - Hydrus combines autonomous navigation, communications and image-capture technologies. The hovering AUV was designed to reduce the cost, risk and complexity of underwater data collection. Advanced Navigation presented the system with ocean-research and… - source: advancednavigation.com 2022-01-12 - Demonstration - Cordel integrated Advanced Navigation inertial navigation with lidar for railway-corridor surveying - Cordel paired inertial navigation with lidar for rail-corridor data collection The configuration supported useful point clouds where satellite reception degraded The work documents an operating survey configuration rather than standard product fit - source: advancednavigation.com 2021-10-07 - Demonstration - IHMC exoskeleton uses Orientus orientation feedback - Orientus supplied real-time roll, pitch and yaw data. The sensor supported balance and control of the wearable robotic system. Quix was developed for mobility-assistance research rather than commercial deployment. - source: advancednavigation.com 2021-10-07 - Market Signal - Advanced Navigation launches Cloud Ground Control - The platform connects multiple users and drones over 4G and 5G networks. Little Ripper used the system to manage drone operations along more than 1,000 kilometres of coastline. Operators can connect vehicles through a compact modem or smartphone application. - source: advancednavigation.com 2021-07-11 - Demonstration - ARRB Hawkeye road-survey system adopts Spatial Dual - The sensor supplied precise timing, navigation and orientation data. Integration with the Gipsi-Trac2 dead-reckoning system supported degraded-GNSS operation. The configuration addressed gaps where GNSS signals were interrupted. - source: advancednavigation.com 2021-06-06 - Demonstration - AMZ driverless race car uses Spatial Dual navigation - The team required accurate heading data for autonomous race-course navigation. Spatial Dual combined dual-antenna GNSS with inertial navigation in the vehicle. The configuration was a research-competition use rather than a production supply programme. - source: advancednavigation.com 2021-03-24 - Partnership - Advanced Navigation and Q-CTRL start Moon to Mars navigation project - The work targeted launch vehicles, satellites and landers. The proposed architecture combined quantum sensing with inertial navigation. The project was positioned for long-duration missions where external navigation signals are unavailable. - source: advancednavigation.com View Advanced Navigation overview