Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Solar Flares Could Seriously Disrupt GPS Receivers

A minor solar flare in September 2005 produced a noticeable degradation of all GPS signals on the day side of the Earth. When scaled up to the larger solar flares expected in 2011-12, Cornell researchers expect massive outages of all GPS receivers on the day side of the Earth.

You can read more about it here.

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