Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

(space.com)

59 points | by y1n0 4 hours ago

6 comments

  • random3 1 hour ago
    GPS tampering “data” from a company who’s upcoming tech is advertised to solve the problem their data shows is indeed a problem, and coincidentally also raised their 170M series C
    • fsh 1 hour ago
      Competing with four free GNSS constellations is an interesting business model for sure...
  • navigate8310 1 hour ago
    > Gunning says that, with the superior strength of the PNT signal transmitted by the company's planned LEO constellation, existing jammers would only be able to affect about 5% of the area they can currently disrupt. "The effect of the jamming is going to be reduced to a smaller radius," Gunning said. "The degradation area will go down, and the full lock-out radius will also go down."

    Will this suddenly make offending countries scramble for an alternative?

  • Scoundreller 32 minutes ago
    > When we fly over North America, for example, we see a beautiful signal all the time

    I think by “fly”, they mean several hundred km in the air where you have sharply reduced below-the-horizon blocking.

    Anyone got any leads on Doppler shift detecting equipment? Not hard to detect you’re getting spoofed or jammed with based on that. Power levels being all improbable wouldn’t be hard to detect either. Difficult to detect if “tuned” to a particular target but blanket spoofing would be hard.

    Then at the consumer level, fallback options exist (hi wifi); but having something more local would be nice. FM radio stations maybe? Can mess with those too ofc. AM systems are already a fallback in aviation for gross navigation.

    A private GNSS constellation has very business cases.

  • kitchi 1 hour ago
    Is GNSS jamming really as bad a problem as the article makes it seem?

    The article itself reads like guerilla advertising so I'm inclined not to take it at face value.

    • unsnap_biceps 42 minutes ago
      Veritasium did a video a few weeks ago about scientists trying to figure out where a space based GPS jamming signal came from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23G_UXCGA
    • Jur 52 minutes ago
      I also read the same guerilla advertising for an alternative between the lines. If I understood it correctly from the article, the alternative itself is basically more of the same, but with a stronger signal.

      So they basically will launch 300 satellites with an alternative that will face the exact same issues once jamming output signals increase too?

  • skeptic_ai 1 hour ago
    The worst ad ridden website I’ve ever seen.
  • vachina 1 hour ago
    I honestly see this jamming as a win. GNSS is a global blanket opt-in American spyware.
    • fsh 1 hour ago
      GNSS receivers are passive devices that receive beacons broadcasted from the satellites. It's technically impossible to spy on someone with GNSS.
    • minetest2048 1 hour ago
      My pedantic self says GNSS includes other non-US constellations such as GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou, and they flew those satellites because they don't fully trust US GPS
      • ggm 0 minutes ago
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