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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the most common method; however, traditional systems may have high position errors due to the signal\u2019s path between the satellite and the receiver\u2019s antenna. In this work, we present a GNSS adaptive antenna with beamforming capabilities that can apply spatial filtering to mitigate interferences and improve satellite connectivity, reducing the positioning error. The array, developed with off-the-shelf GNSS antennas, was used to demonstrate the improvement of the gain comparatively to the traditional GNSS antenna, while maintaining circular polarization in all directions. A digital beamforming solution was employed with the software-defined platform based on a Xilinx ZCU216. The full system performance was tested in an anechoic chamber, where good results were obtained in both single- and multibeam scenarios, with great agreement between the simulated and measured data. The results presented in this paper validate the proposed Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based antenna array and beamforming development platform, paving the way for the seamless and rapid design and testing of numerous antenna array geometries with up to 16 channels and beamforming algorithms, including adaptive ones. 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