Since the 1990s, the Global Positioning System, better known as GPS, developed by the United States Department of Defense, has been used worldwide by civilians, vehicles, ships and aircraft for navigation. But recently the system has experienced increasing disruptions. Krone+ about the reasons and the dangerous consequences.
Since the advent of the first smartphones and smartwatches, GPS has become virtually ubiquitous: we use the satellite navigation system – usually through mapping services such as Google Maps – to guide us from A to B, whether by car, bicycle or even on foot .
For orientation, numerous ships and aircraft also rely on the technology developed in the 1970s by the US Department of Defense and now often synonymous with other satellite navigation systems such as the Russian GLONASS, the European Galileo or the Chinese BeiDou, developed in 1983 . was released for civilian use by then US President Ronald Reagan.
But the satellites have been failing more and more lately. Usually for political reasons.
Source: Krone
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