burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com to SpaceflightEnglish · 2 months agoAmerica is at risk of high impact GPS jamming and spoofing from spacespacenews.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down11
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkAmerica is at risk of high impact GPS jamming and spoofing from spacespacenews.comburble@lemmy.dbzer0.com to SpaceflightEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareohellidklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agolooks 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?
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAren’t the satellites already up to GPS III now? If a hardware upgrade is required, seems ilke it would be GPS IV.
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoOr we just arm our gps satellites and let them pick out and disable offensive satellites. Might be cheaper.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThe only thing that can stop a bad GPS satellite is a good GPS satellite with a gun.
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?
Aren’t the satellites already up to GPS III now? If a hardware upgrade is required, seems ilke it would be GPS IV.
Or we just arm our gps satellites and let them pick out and disable offensive satellites. Might be cheaper.
The only thing that can stop a bad GPS satellite is a good GPS satellite with a gun.