I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit.
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I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?
@sundogplanets any details you can share about the technical specifics?
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Oh, so that's what's disrupting the GPS/GNSS that modern aviation relies on.
You'll see frequent reports on the ACARS bots on the Fediverse, for example:
@zl2tod @sundogplanets No, I don't see any indication that AST satellites are affecting aircraft GNSS. The GPS/GNSS disruption is almost entirely intentional jamming in conflict zones, or Russia jamming European countries. See my site, https://gpsjam.org.
I haven't seen any indication of AST causing interference with GPS (yet) or anyone else talking about them currently causing interference.
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I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?
@sundogplanets oh, the Space Force isn’t going to like that at all. GPS is critical war-fighting infrastructure first, everything else second.
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I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?
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I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?
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