by Editor | May 4, 2017 | Blog
Bill Calls for Protection of Critical Infrastructure, National Security Assets On the first of September 1859 the Earth was hit by a massive solar flare. It was so strong that currents induced in telegraph wires set offices afire. Later dubbed “the Carrington...
by Editor | May 2, 2017 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: A great article by long-time RNTF member Guy Buesnel. As you read through the article, you will see that clock failures have not been unique to Galileo. Problems like these are good reminders that no system is perfect and all will fail at...
by Editor | Apr 29, 2017 | Blog
This month Canada’s Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence has recommended that the nation’s satellites be declared critical infrastructure. In a report on military funding dated April 2017 the committee said: “In this connection, space...
by Editor | Apr 24, 2017 | Blog
“Tomorrow Never Dies,” a James Bond movie, premiered in 1997 and featured GPS spoofing that caused an international incident. Fourteen years later, in 2011, Iran used GPS spoofing to capture a CIA drone flying next door in Afghanistan and caused an...
by Editor | Apr 17, 2017 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: Several interesting things about the below article: A NASA facility monitoring the cyber-security of US satellites to ensure they don’t get hacked by adversary nation states is in Russia. NASA needs Russia to get people into space...
by Editor | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog
Editor’s Note: There is a lot of good technology out there, but not nearly enough people are using it. Good article in GPS World by Michael Jones about one such. Controlled reception pattern antennas (CRPAs, pronounced “serpers”), adaptive antennas,...
