Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

(space.com)

52 points | by y1n0 3 hours ago

5 comments

  • random3 49 minutes ago
    GPS tampering “data” from a company who’s upcoming tech is advertised to solve the problem their data shows is indeed a problem, and coincidentally also raised their 170M series C
    • fsh 36 minutes ago
      Competing with four free GNSS constellations is an interesting business model for sure...
  • navigate8310 43 minutes ago
    > Gunning says that, with the superior strength of the PNT signal transmitted by the company's planned LEO constellation, existing jammers would only be able to affect about 5% of the area they can currently disrupt. "The effect of the jamming is going to be reduced to a smaller radius," Gunning said. "The degradation area will go down, and the full lock-out radius will also go down."

    Will this suddenly make offending countries scramble for an alternative?

  • kitchi 23 minutes ago
    Is GNSS jamming really as bad a problem as the article makes it seem?

    The article itself reads like guerilla advertising so I'm inclined not to take it at face value.

    • unsnap_biceps 3 minutes ago
      Veritasium did a video a few weeks ago about scientists trying to figure out where a space based GPS jamming signal came from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23G_UXCGA
    • Jur 12 minutes ago
      I also read the same guerilla advertising for an alternative between the lines. If I understood it correctly from the article, the alternative itself is basically more of the same, but with a stronger signal.

      So they basically will launch 300 satellites with an alternative that will face the exact same issues once jamming output signals increase too?

  • skeptic_ai 47 minutes ago
    The worst ad ridden website I’ve ever seen.
  • vachina 44 minutes ago
    I honestly see this jamming as a win. GNSS is a global blanket opt-in American spyware.
    • fsh 41 minutes ago
      GNSS receivers are passive devices that receive beacons broadcasted from the satellites. It's technically impossible to spy on someone with GNSS.
    • minetest2048 32 minutes ago
      My pedantic self says GNSS includes other non-US constellations such as GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou, and they flew those satellites because they don't fully trust US GPS