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

who'd be doing the jamming?

[–] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years 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 2 years 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?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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