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Design-stage concept — nothing built. The figures are verified against the parts' sheets and the parts before a carrier is made.

A bought receiver module, a bought active antenna, and a carrier the size of the module that puts them on Kronos's data connector. No processor, no bus, no address. Polaris is what a station fits when it has no Sputnik: a time-only GNSS receiver on Kronos's TIME IN 1 socket, handing it a lean NMEA stream and a PPS edge. Kronos disciplines and distributes; this is only its source.

   ACGPSA, active antenna, mast-top, on an insulating bracket
        │ coax ≤ 4 m, the station's two DC-pass arresters on it
        ▼ SMA
   ┌────────────────────────────────────┐
   │ POLARIS — the carrier              │
   │   the bought module: NEO-M8N,      │      one Galvani data connector, 12 pins
   │   its bias tee, SMA                │─────────────────────────────────────────▶ KRONOS
   │   ID = GNSS, 33 Ω on the PPS       │      CLK/PPS · GND · TXD · RXD · ID · 3,3 V
   └────────────────────────────────────┘

The receiver never leaves the enclosure (../../core/blocks/gps-pps.md). Only the coax is long, and RF does not care. So Polaris has no barrier to cross, no feed to make and nothing to range: it is a carrier, not a Galvani board and not a unit.

One type, M8N, typed into Kronos and never detected. Kronos checks it at every boot — MON-VER — and configures it to one profile, so a module out of the box and one somebody reconfigured come up alike. UM980 is Sputnik's part and does not appear here — a station with a Sputnik has its time source already.

Its delay is two typed numbers and no measurement. CAB is the coax, metres × ~5 ns/m; INT is the antenna and the module as one constant of the type. Both are subtracted on Kronos, once.

Hardware: CERN-OHL-P v2 (../../LICENSE-HW) · Software: MIT (../../LICENSE) — Copyright (c) 2026 NIC — Native Intellect Community