GPS Data From 2021 Reveals Possible Secret Space-Based Jammer Blocking Signals Over Europe
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James Felton
Summary
In November 2024, Professor Todd Humphreys of UT Austin investigated a tip about unusual GPS data from 2021. The data revealed a mysterious signal jamming GPS over Europe, possibly from a secret space-based jammer. The signals appeared only on weekdays, ruling out natural space weather as the cause. The full details are behind a paywall, but the discovery suggests deliberate interference with GPS signals over Europe.
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bskyGPS Data From 2021 Reveals Possible Secret Space-Based Jammer Blocking Signals Over Europeiflscience.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledIn November 2024, Todd Humphreys, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, received an unusual tip off, telling him to look at data from a network of GPS monitoring stations from very specific times, collected in 2021.
As Veritasium explains in a new video, this sort of tipoff didn't seem like it would contain anything too interesting.
The team considered that the signals could be caused by space weather, but space weather generally does not co-ordinate itself to only attack on weekdays.
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