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July 15, 2019 03:38 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HxGYwweKsXs/europe-relies-on-american-gps-as-its-own-galileo-system-suffers-massive-outage
Europe Relies on American GPS as Its Own Galileo System Suffers Massive Outage
An anonymous reader shares a report: Europe's Galileo satellite network -- used by satnavs, financial institutions and more -- is in the throes of a huge outage. The system has been down since Friday meaning that travelers (and others) in Europe have instead had to fall back on the American Global Positioning System (GPS) -- or even Russia or Chinese systems. Galileo has been struck by what is being described as a "technical incident related to its ground infrastructure", and it's not clear when the situation will be remedied. The European GNSS Agency (Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency, or GSA) says that the incident affects only the Galileo initial navigation and timing services. It stresses that "the SAR service -- used for locating and helping people in distress situations for example at sea or mountains -- is unaffected and remains operational".Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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