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America is at risk of high impact GPS jamming and spoofing from space (spacenews.com)
submitted 1 week ago by burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works
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[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

who'd be doing the jamming?

[–] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“There is every reason to believe China’s BeiDou global navigation satellite system has the ability to imitate American GPS signals and those of Europe’s Galileo,” said Professor Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas Radionavigation Lab...

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

looks like our systems need some sort of security update. problem is, would all of our GPS receivers need updated too? maybe a GPS 2.0 or something?

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or we just arm our gps satellites and let them pick out and disable offensive satellites. Might be cheaper.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

The only thing that can stop a bad GPS satellite is a good GPS satellite with a gun.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Aren't the satellites already up to GPS III now? If a hardware upgrade is required, seems ilke it would be GPS IV.