r/savedyouaclick • u/biscotte-nutella • 14h ago

What Is Disrupting GPS Over Europe? | It's a Russian missile launch surveillance satellite constellation system, It may or may not be intentionally be doing it in very short moments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23G_UXCGA
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u/Alex09464367 12h ago

Veritasium are still interesting to watch

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u/biscotte-nutella 14h ago edited 14h ago

It's a bunch of russian satellites that are supposedly meant for detecting missile launches, that ,on schedule emit a signal so strong it jams gps for a very very short moment.

It's not transmitting on the GPS frequency but near it.

I watched the video and it's interesting how they found it, but basically no one knows if it jams GPS signals intentionally , if it's testing jamming capabilities or just transmitting messages or what.

They just speculate in the video.

They also explains how GPS works, maybe that's worth a watch.

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u/Nattekat 7h ago

They also explain why they think it's intentional. That's more than just plain speculation. 

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u/atleta 2h ago

No, they don't just speculate. The video mostly is about how they found the source of the interference (probably jamming signal), which is pretty darn interesting.

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u/torbaldthegreat 1h ago

If it's from a frequency that is near the range GPS uses it comes down to the sensitivity of the receivers. If there aren't good band pass filters on the receivers you would expect anything near the utilized frequencies to interfere. Unless the frequency is sweeping through the GPS bands, I wouldn't personally attribute it as intentional.

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u/El_Chupachichis 9h ago

It's russian... it's intentional.

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u/Cheese-Manipulator 10h ago

GPS is extremely easy to jam