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Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal

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Re: Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal

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Fun fact, the Galileo system was designed to be more accurate and difficult to jam than the civilian GPS but after the US saw this a potential threat and considered shooting down the satellites in case of a global conflict, the design was switched to a frequency they could easily jam.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...

What makes a frequency easy to jam?

> At issue is the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) desire to be able to jam other radionavigation signals in a theater of operation so as to provide an edge to allied users of military GPS receivers. This "selective denial" capability would be complicated by the presence of an encrypted PRS signal atop the M-code bands, because the U.S. could not jam the PRS without jamming its own signals.

There's some more info here: https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090628141907/http://findarticle...

Re: Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal

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post #9

Fun fact, the Galileo system was designed to be more accurate and difficult to jam than the civilian GPS but after the US saw this a potential threat and considered shooting down the satellites in case of a global conflict, the design was switched to a frequency they could easily jam.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...

What makes a frequency easy to jam?

That frequency not being the same as the one used by the US’s own GNSS system enabling them to block it without blocking their own service.

Re: Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal

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post #9

Fun fact, the Galileo system was designed to be more accurate and difficult to jam than the civilian GPS but after the US saw this a potential threat and considered shooting down the satellites in case of a global conflict, the design was switched to a frequency they could easily jam.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...

What makes a frequency easy to jam?

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Re: Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal

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post #15

All of the satellites? What could possible cause all of them to fail at the same time? It's not hardware because they weren't all switched at the same time. Software?

Wrong config push.

Yeah, bad regex.
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