Tests suggest Russian satellites can jam GPS on a continental scale
6 hours ago
- #Cybersecurity
- #GPS interference
- #Satellite surveillance
- Russian satellites identified as cause of brief GPS interference bursts across Europe
- Research by University of Texas and Stanford team analyzed 2019-2026 ground station data, finding 75 days with widespread GPS L1 band interference
- Interference events lasted <10 seconds, detected simultaneously from Norway to Spain, reaching Greenland and Canada
- Patterns occurred mostly on Tuesdays to Thursdays during European business hours
- Source altitude estimated >1,200 km, implicating space-based origin over terrestrial
- Researchers narrowed suspects to specific satellites but lacked raw signal data for definitive identification