by Editor | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog
The European Union’s STRIKE3 project found over 160,000 GNSS interference events during the most recent 18 month period for which a report is available. These events were detected by sampling done in 14 different countries. Early in the project when just...
by Editor | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: Not all problems with space services are best solved in space. Yet it seems that the way our budgets and policy making are stove-piped, that is the only way we are addressing problems. See yesterday’s post regarding the Secretary of the...
by Editor | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog
Last month Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told the Washington Examiner “We built a glass house before the invention of stones” by way of explaining the vulnerability of space systems and the services they provide. Of all our space-based services, GPS signals are...
by Editor | Feb 12, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: We just discovered this recent paper available for free through the Royal Institute of Navigation’s “The Journal of Navigation.” It makes a number of good points about policy, as well as being a good technical review. From...
by Editor | Feb 9, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: A recent UK government report sounds the alarm for every nation about dependence on GNSS. As an example of one of dozens of vulnerabilities, the report describes how jammers are used along with a suite of other wireless tools to easily steal...
by Editor | Feb 6, 2018 | Blog
At the Munich Satellite Summit last year a rep from the European Union announced that they had detected more than 150,000 unique electronic signatures of GNSS jamming devices on the continent. Unlike the United States and other areas of the world which undoubtedly...