[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Yield [@Yield_of_Parth](/creator/twitter/Yield_of_Parth) on x 1834 followers Created: 2025-07-11 15:44:47 UTC From what I can tell, $ASTS may have patented the simplest way yet to figure out where a phone is—without asking the phone itself. If the company’s claims hold up, it looks set to leapfrog rivals that still lean on jam-prone GPS or multiple satellites. The approach seems to satisfy the accuracy rules regulators care about, and it could open an entirely new tier of spoof-resistant location services, from off-grid emergency calls to low-profile force tracking—all with the handsets people already own. Worth stressing: this is my interpretation of the patent and public filings, not definitive legal or technical advice. GPS Is Easy to Fool $ASTS just locked down a patent that quietly solves one of the dirtiest little secrets of wireless: GPS (or more correctly...GNSS) is easy to fool. GNSS is simply the collective name for GPS, Galileo, BeiDou and GLONASS—the four constellations that tell our phones where they are. Their signals hit the ground weaker than cosmic background noise, so a kid with a software-defined radio can jam them and military-grade spoofers now knock out position fixes on roughly XXXXX airline flights every single day over conflict zones. The Patent’s Elegant Fix $ASTS new U.S. XXXXXXXXXX patent cuts GNSS out of the loop entirely. Its trick is wonderfully simple: keep a call going for a few seconds as the satellite moves along its orbit, measure how long the signal takes to go up and back twice, and add the angle the signal hits the satellite’s phased array. Those two range “snapshots,” plus the angle-of-arrival, intersect at one point on Earth—no GPS chip, no second satellite, no ground-tower triangulation, and no way for a spoofer to fake the extra two-millisecond light-time to orbit. Regulatory Edge vs Rivals If everything works as advertised, a single satellite gets under the U.S. E-911 XX m accuracy bar. My read of Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell paperwork is that it still depends on the phone’s own GPS plus timing tweaks, which falls apart if GPS is jammed. Other D2D players look similar. That could give $ASTS a short-term compliance edge. Stealth Location Opens New Doors Because $ASTS does the maths in the cloud, the phone doesn’t even know it has been located. That creates blue-force tracking in contested zones—friendly soldiers’ phones can potentially sit with GPS off yet still potentially appear on command screens. More intriguing is silent red-force tracking: any hostile handset that so much as sends a random-access burst, a silent-SMS response or an emergency-only attach can potentially give $ASTS the two bursts it needs to range and fix, with zero on-screen clue to the user. Day-One Reality (as I understand it) Nothing in the patent seems to require the phone to run cutting-edge firmware. If a Release XX handset can hold a link, the satellite should be able to take its two timing snapshots and spit out a sub-50 m fix. In principle, carriers would get emergency-call compliance, basic asset tracking and a GNSS-jam-proof safety net on launch day. Future 3GPP Upside The standards body (3GPP) is already sketching out Release XX rules that would fold AST’s one-satellite timing trick straight into the 5G playbook. Once that happens, every new phone will collect the needed timing-and-direction clues automatically, cutting location lock-on to a few seconds and making satellite-based XXX fixes a built-in feature rather than a clever workaround. Because the rules would lean on $ASTS patent, competitors who copy the approach will likely have to pay a reasonable license fee—turning today’s technical edge into a steady revenue stream. Expect a simple “Satellite Location” toggle in phone settings, smoother hand-offs between different brands, and eventually sub-five-second emergency fixes. None of this is guaranteed— $ASTS still has to shepherd the idea through working groups—but the upside is there if the spec writers sign off. Commercial Upside Assuming operators buy in, the tech could give them an instant off-grid E-911 option without handset swaps. Governments get a GNSS backup for shipping, pipelines and agriculture; defense customers get a new geolocation tool that works even under heavy jamming. If $ASTS ’s IP turns out to be hard to work around, licensing could add another revenue stream—but that’s speculative for now (but to speculate, the moat could be as wide as the satellite’s ground footprint). Limitations Worth Watching Because the satellite must drift between its two checks, first fix takes roughly 10-30 seconds—fine for SOS calls, too slow for live turn-by-turn maps. A working backhaul link is needed during that window, so deep-ocean or polar spots may lag until more relays exist. City canyons add multipath noise, and any phone in airplane mode (or locked to land-based towers only) stays invisible. Speculatively, 3GPP’s next releases could chip away at that wait by standardizing rapid-fire ranging bursts (or letting two overlapping satellites measure at once), which—if adopted and built into future phones—might pull times down to just a few seconds. But until those specs are written, approved, and shipped in real hardware, plan on the current 10-30-second window. All of the above reflects my best interpretation of the patent text and public 3GPP notes—happy to be corrected if new data emerges. Regardless, $ASTS keeps rewriting the satellite-cellular playbook—pushing the frontier of telecom in ways that are hard to ignore. XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [rat](/topic/rat) [stocks technology](/topic/stocks-technology) [$asts](/topic/$asts) [Post Link](https://x.com/Yield_of_Parth/status/1943697989119177060)
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From what I can tell, $ASTS may have patented the simplest way yet to figure out where a phone is—without asking the phone itself. If the company’s claims hold up, it looks set to leapfrog rivals that still lean on jam-prone GPS or multiple satellites. The approach seems to satisfy the accuracy rules regulators care about, and it could open an entirely new tier of spoof-resistant location services, from off-grid emergency calls to low-profile force tracking—all with the handsets people already own. Worth stressing: this is my interpretation of the patent and public filings, not definitive legal or technical advice.
GPS Is Easy to Fool $ASTS just locked down a patent that quietly solves one of the dirtiest little secrets of wireless: GPS (or more correctly...GNSS) is easy to fool. GNSS is simply the collective name for GPS, Galileo, BeiDou and GLONASS—the four constellations that tell our phones where they are. Their signals hit the ground weaker than cosmic background noise, so a kid with a software-defined radio can jam them and military-grade spoofers now knock out position fixes on roughly XXXXX airline flights every single day over conflict zones.
The Patent’s Elegant Fix $ASTS new U.S. XXXXXXXXXX patent cuts GNSS out of the loop entirely. Its trick is wonderfully simple: keep a call going for a few seconds as the satellite moves along its orbit, measure how long the signal takes to go up and back twice, and add the angle the signal hits the satellite’s phased array. Those two range “snapshots,” plus the angle-of-arrival, intersect at one point on Earth—no GPS chip, no second satellite, no ground-tower triangulation, and no way for a spoofer to fake the extra two-millisecond light-time to orbit.
Regulatory Edge vs Rivals If everything works as advertised, a single satellite gets under the U.S. E-911 XX m accuracy bar. My read of Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell paperwork is that it still depends on the phone’s own GPS plus timing tweaks, which falls apart if GPS is jammed. Other D2D players look similar. That could give $ASTS a short-term compliance edge.
Stealth Location Opens New Doors Because $ASTS does the maths in the cloud, the phone doesn’t even know it has been located. That creates blue-force tracking in contested zones—friendly soldiers’ phones can potentially sit with GPS off yet still potentially appear on command screens. More intriguing is silent red-force tracking: any hostile handset that so much as sends a random-access burst, a silent-SMS response or an emergency-only attach can potentially give $ASTS the two bursts it needs to range and fix, with zero on-screen clue to the user.
Day-One Reality (as I understand it) Nothing in the patent seems to require the phone to run cutting-edge firmware. If a Release XX handset can hold a link, the satellite should be able to take its two timing snapshots and spit out a sub-50 m fix. In principle, carriers would get emergency-call compliance, basic asset tracking and a GNSS-jam-proof safety net on launch day.
Future 3GPP Upside The standards body (3GPP) is already sketching out Release XX rules that would fold AST’s one-satellite timing trick straight into the 5G playbook. Once that happens, every new phone will collect the needed timing-and-direction clues automatically, cutting location lock-on to a few seconds and making satellite-based XXX fixes a built-in feature rather than a clever workaround. Because the rules would lean on $ASTS patent, competitors who copy the approach will likely have to pay a reasonable license fee—turning today’s technical edge into a steady revenue stream. Expect a simple “Satellite Location” toggle in phone settings, smoother hand-offs between different brands, and eventually sub-five-second emergency fixes. None of this is guaranteed— $ASTS still has to shepherd the idea through working groups—but the upside is there if the spec writers sign off.
Commercial Upside Assuming operators buy in, the tech could give them an instant off-grid E-911 option without handset swaps. Governments get a GNSS backup for shipping, pipelines and agriculture; defense customers get a new geolocation tool that works even under heavy jamming. If $ASTS ’s IP turns out to be hard to work around, licensing could add another revenue stream—but that’s speculative for now (but to speculate, the moat could be as wide as the satellite’s ground footprint).
Limitations Worth Watching Because the satellite must drift between its two checks, first fix takes roughly 10-30 seconds—fine for SOS calls, too slow for live turn-by-turn maps. A working backhaul link is needed during that window, so deep-ocean or polar spots may lag until more relays exist. City canyons add multipath noise, and any phone in airplane mode (or locked to land-based towers only) stays invisible. Speculatively, 3GPP’s next releases could chip away at that wait by standardizing rapid-fire ranging bursts (or letting two overlapping satellites measure at once), which—if adopted and built into future phones—might pull times down to just a few seconds. But until those specs are written, approved, and shipped in real hardware, plan on the current 10-30-second window.
All of the above reflects my best interpretation of the patent text and public 3GPP notes—happy to be corrected if new data emerges. Regardless, $ASTS keeps rewriting the satellite-cellular playbook—pushing the frontier of telecom in ways that are hard to ignore.
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