SPACE (Seamless Positioning in All Conditions and Environments) is an EPSRC-funded collaborative research project. It began life as a Pinpoint Faraday flagship project but, following the evolution of Pinpoint into a Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), now operates within the Location and Timing KTN ( http://www.locationktn.com ). It is being undertaken by a consortium of eleven UK university and industrial groups. The university groups are the CAA Institute of Satellite Navigation at the University of Leeds, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, the Department of Geomatic Engineering at University College London (UCL), and the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy at University of Nottingham, and the industrial partners are The Civil Aviation Authority, EADS Astrium, Leica Geosystems, Nottingham Scientific Ltd, Ordnance Survey, QinetiQ and Thales Research and Technology.

The primary aim of SPACE is to undertake the basic research needed to build a prototype GNSS-based positioning system that can deliver cm-level accuracy positioning everywhere and at all times. The main component research thrusts are multipath modelling and mitigation, quality control and assessment, measurement modelling and integration, and GNSS sensor design. The key output from SPACE will be the fully tested design of a prototype plug and play integrated positioning system that can be used as a test bed for current and future positioning components and algorithms.