[SystemSafety] GPS jamming

Robert P. Schaefer rps at mit.edu
Wed Jul 10 13:49:01 CEST 2019


Thought this would be of interest:

NASA report: Passenger aircraft nearly crashes due GPS disruption

https://www.gpsworld.com/nasa-report-passenger-aircraft-nearly-crashes-due-gps-disruption/

Along the lines of “Who the heck would jam GPS in the continental US?”,
I’ve got an anecdotal story from one of Haystack’s scientists who was trying to collect GPS data
(L1, L2 data is useful for measuring solar activity in the Ionosphere) during the solar eclipse in August 2017.
He was unable to collect data because of GPS jamming. The story was that truckers use GPS jammers so they
won’t be tracked by their employers.

bob s.
research engineer
MIT haystack observatory
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