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Protect the Frequencies – By preventing interference
Toughen Receivers – With readily available technology
Augment Services – With difficult to disrupt terrestrial signals
What to do? Some recommendations.
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The U.S. needs GPS backup and IoT resilience – Rebuttal in GPS World
Image: Shutterstock What's new: A piece by Avi Rosenthal from the Z-Wave Alliance discussing the need to both backup GPS and not displace well-established users from their spectrum. Why it's important: NextNav has a petition pending before the FCC asking for about $5B...
Your Responses to the FCC’s NOI on PNT – Inside GNSS
Image: RNT Foundation Your Responses to the FCC's NOI on PNT A look at the main concerns during the comment period. Dana A. Goward America’s Global Positioning System (GPS) is simultaneously amazing, indispensable, and vulnerable. If its positioning, navigation, and...
“PULL UP, PULL UP!” yet again – The Aviation Herald
Image: Shutterstock What's new: Another instance of a commercial aircraft having a false terrain warning, undoubtedly due to GPS interference. Why it's important: The impacted aircraft was grounded for a week after the incident. From a larger perspective this is bad...
Solar Storms Impact on Farming: 5 Critical Risks in 2025
Image: Shutterstock What's new: Some impacts on farming that we had not considered before. Why it's important: According to the article, 40% of farms could be impacted. We all gotta eat, so that's important. What else to know: We are more than halfway through 2025,...
Climate pollution is making GPS and communications satellites even more vulnerable to solar storms – CNN
Image: John Hartzel What's new: A study about the interaction of climate change and satellite orbits. Why its important: There are a lot of threats to GPS, including severe solar activity. Severe solar activity, while inevitable, has always been considered, and still...
