The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.

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    10 months ago

    That’s how you get space trash like GLONASS and beidou. Their only purpose is being “not GPS”.

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      10 months ago

      So, you see, these projects are primarily for warfare. Civilian applications are often permitted but that’s not the point of those projects.

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          10 months ago

          Wait what? Shouldn’t that enable the US to end this war relatively easily? They could instantly break a lot of the advanced weaponry of Russians by disabling GPS for them.

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            You can’t disable GPS for individual devices, what they can do is disable the civilian signals and only send out the military ones which are both scrambled and way more accurate. GPS is one-way communication, from satellites to ground devices, no backlink.

            And I bet they absolutely would, but Ukraine is also using civilian devices and asked the US not to.

          • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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            No they couldn’t. GPS works by sending the time stamps and position of the satellite. By measuering the difference between when the signals reach the gps device it can triangulate its position.

            There is the civillian coarse and an encrypted fine version for the military. I think the US will not allow the Ukrainians access to the second and their tech is probably not suitable for it.

            If they cut GPS it cuts for everyone in that area.

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          10 months ago

          That’s just a consequence of classic Russian corruption. That’s not the system working as designed 😄