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Home »Garmin GPS Hack Makes Wired’s “Worst of 2020” List
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Normally we report about jamming and spoofing. But GPS receivers are really computers with radio receivers attached. So we have to also worry about more conventional cyber security issues. This event had a big impact on...
read moreLocal Nashville Explosion – Outages in Seattle, San Fran, elsewhere
Image: DownDetector.com 25 Dec 2020 Blog Editor's Note: It looks like the blast itself only impacted a block or two of downtown Nashville. Yet telecommunications customers in Seattle, VA and Vancouver, Canada were impacted as were those in other far flung cities....
read moreThousands of GNSS jamming and spoofing incidents reported in 2020 – Guy Buesnel
Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway Blog Editor's Note: Guy Buesnel is a widely recognized and insightful observer of GNSS issues, especially impacting the aviation sector. This is an interesting review of the year showing impacts across sectors and the...
read moreRussian and Chinese space weapons could plunge West into DARK AGES with crashed economy and mass blackouts, experts warn – The Sun
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The Sun is a British tabloid known for its sensational take on most things. Sensationalism aside, we need to ask ourselves, what in this article is not true or likely true? . 'UNLEASH HAVOC' Russian and Chinese space...
read moreThe military is scrambling to understand the aviation crash risk from a new 5G sale – Defense News
Image: Department of Defense Blog Editor's Note: We have posted on this before and, while it is not in the center of our normal lane, it is worth raising the issue again. And, with the Ligado decision, the PNT community has certainly had to contend with the challenge...
read moreDHS Believes Our Reliance on GPS ‘Poses a Risk to National Security’ – Vice
Image: James Caverly, Department of Homeland Security Blog Editor's Note: Good to see a major news conglomerate picked up on this. We reported about it in 2015, and have been hoping it would come to the attention of others. The report was actually drafted in 2011 -...
read moreDHS PNT Conformance Framework – Important Step in “Toughening” Users
Blog Editor's Note: The community and government have long struggled to define "resilience" when it comes to GPS/GNSS receivers. While it does not provide the "procurement language" so many have called for, this is a huge step forward for the community. We will likely...
read moreGalileo 6 Hour Outage 14 December – Update Posted
Blog Editor's Note: We greatly admire the Galileo project, all they have achieved and are still achieving. As a civilian project focused on economic and public benefits, the system has been designed with features not available in older and military systems such as GPS...
read moreGNSS Disruption in Aviation Getting Worse – EUROCONTROL
An Orolia sponsored webinar yesterday "Resilient PNT - The European Perspective" included a presentation by EUROCONTROL. Gerhard Berz discussed the greatly increasing number of reports of GNSS disruption his organization has been receiving. EUROCONTROL has an...
read moreFirst Fix: National timing architecture needed now – GPS World
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is president of the RNT Foundation. First Fix: National timing architecture needed now December 14, 2020 - By Dana Goward Dana Goward, President, Resilient PNT Foundation The Empire State...
read moreCheap GPS jammers a major threat to drones – ZD Net
Image: UK Aircraft Accident Investigations Branch Blog Editor's Note: We are not sure the drone and autonomous community have really come to grips with this issue. The article mentions interference with a display involving hundreds of drones. There have been other...
read moreGPS Backup Finally Moving Closer – Aviation News from the Reason Foundation
Blog Editor's Note - Toward the end of the article, Bob Poole discusses FAA's failure to refresh the aviation terrestrial navigation system consisting of VORs and DMEs. He also suggests the Department of Transportation should focus on, not just a backup system for...
read moreU.S. Already 0-1 in Tech War With China – National Defense
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A disturbing Op-Ed discussing China's dominance in rare earths and progress on 5G, quickly suggesting that the score might already be 0-2. Or maybe 0-3 if you throw in AI. However you are scoring, the U.S. is another point down...
read moreDoT Maritime Spoofing, Jamming Workshop Slides Posted
Image: University of Texas at Austin Radionavigation Lab The Department of Transportation's Virtual Workshop on GPS Jamming and Spoofing in the Maritime Environment was held on the 3rd of December. Over 200 attended the afternoon session that had a recurring theme of...
read moreMore GPS Warnings About Solar Flares
Images: NASA and Shutterstock It's never a good idea to bet against Mother Nature. Though it looks like we might have won this time. Solar flares have always been a threat to technology. In 1859 and 1921 flares (more correctly - coronal mass ejections, or CMEs)...
read moreFCC Chooses a bit more 5G over aviation safety. Again.
Image: US Coast Guard, Petty Officer John Masson Blog Editor's Note: It was a dark and eerily calm night. The worst-case scenario for a helicopter rescue of someone from the water. On dark and stormy nights at least the pilots can at least see the waves. That night...
read more‘LEO is an orbital junkyard’ NASA – The Tragedy of the Commons & Losing Access to Space
Image: European Space Agency "LEO is an orbital space junk yard. There are millions of pieces of space junk flying in LEO. Most orbital debris comprises human-generated objects, such as pieces of space craft, tiny flecks of paint from a spacecraft, parts of rockets,...
read moreGPS Jamming & Spoofing, 2020 Year in Review – Spirent’s Guy Buesnel
Vessels from around the world report they are off Pt. Reyes and sailing in circles in newest location spoofing phenomena. Image: Skytruth Blog Editor's Note: This is a repost of Guy's excellent article on Linkedin. We are reposting on all our social media to help...
read moreSolar Flux at New High, GPS Problems Possible – Space Weather News
Image: Space Weather News, Millersville University (State University of Pennsylvania) Blog Editor's Note: Last year saw the sun reach solar minimum, the period of the least amount of activity (sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections), We are now heading toward solar...
read moreChina Research Paper on Differential eLoran – Sensors Journal
RNT Foundation Image: Existing Loran service areas in eastern hemisphere with recently announced expansion of Chinese system. Blog Editor's Note: The paper cited below was published three months after another Chinese paper in the same journal that discussed China's...
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