Navigate without satellites. Communicate through jamming. One quantum core.
Neurowand's QS3 quantum sensing core and ASTRA stack keep high-value defence and telecom platforms navigating and communicating when GPS is spoofed and the RF spectrum is contested.
Navigation and communications collapse is no longer rare — or limited to warzones
The risk is existential for high-value (>$100M), mission-critical platforms.
Military-grade INS drifts ~0.01°/hour, forcing GPS re-fixes every 7–14 days. Frequency-hopping radios rely on predefined hop lists — if timing drifts, the link drops. Every current system fails because it relies on assumptions an adversary can break.
One quantum core. Built to replace fragile RF and GPS.
QS3 — our Quantum Sensing and Signal Subsystem — pairs a Rydberg-atom RF sensor with EdgeAI, our real-time inference layer. Together they power ASTRA, our stack of resilient navigation and communication applications, from a single core.
QS3 Core — Rydberg Atom RF Sensing
Two lasers pass through a heated rubidium-87 vapor cell, exciting the atoms into a Rydberg state and opening a narrow window of quantum transparency (EIT). An incoming RF field disturbs that quantum balance, and we read the disturbance directly off the light — no metal antenna, no tuning, no moving parts. One sensor covers kHz to 100+ GHz in a single package.
EdgeAI — Real-Time Inference at the Sensor
Every reading off the QS3 core is processed the instant it's captured — on-chip, at the edge, with no round-trip to a server. The same EdgeAI stack that turns a raw photodiode signal into a classified spectrum or a geomagnetic fix also runs the sense-classify-select-hop loop that keeps a link alive under jamming. It's the layer that makes ASTRA a real-time system, not a lab instrument.
ASTRA — Satellite-Independent Navigation
The same Rydberg sensor also reads the Earth's local magnetic field. EdgeAI matches that reading against IGRF / World Magnetic Model reference data to fix position — passively, covertly, and with no satellite, no timing signal, and no recalibration. Built for submarines, UAVs, and munitions operating exactly where GNSS can't reach.
ASTRA — Adaptive RF Spectrum Control
A continuous sense → classify → select → hop loop scans the full band, tells clean spectrum from contested and jammed, and hops to the best available channel in real time — all inside one millisecond. With no fixed bands and no pre-planned hop list, there's nothing for a jammer to predict or target. This is the same antenna-free receiver architecture 6G needs.
From ambient RF to a jam-proof channel, in under a millisecond
ASTRA's spectrum-control loop runs continuously on the QS3 core, thousands of times per second.
Sense
The QS3 core performs a full-band RF scan across the spectrum — kHz to 100+ GHz — with a single Rydberg sensor.
Classify
EdgeAI sorts what it sees into clean, contested, or jammed in real time — no predefined threshold list.
Select
The system picks the best available band for the current link, continuously, not on a fixed schedule.
Hop
The link hops to the selected band — 1000+ times per second, with no dwell time long enough to be targeted or jammed.
Built for defence and telecom missions
One QS3 core, deployed across the domains where GPS can't be trusted and spectrum is contested.
…and multi-domain use cases across metrology, telecom, space EO, mining, land, sea, air, and subsea.
QS3: single core, multiple missions
A ruggedized, field-deployable module pairing a Rydberg-atom RF sensor with EdgeAI, our real-time inference layer, in one MIL-SPEC enclosure — built to mount directly into vehicles, airframes, and vessels without a lab environment.
- ✓ One core, two missions today — satellite-independent navigation and adaptive RF spectrum control — with more ASTRA applications on the roadmap
- ✓ Passive, covert operation — emits nothing, needs no external signal
- ✓ Real-time EdgeAI inference — no cloud round-trip
- ✓ Ruggedized for vehicle, airframe, and subsurface deployment