Starlink to Drop Tech That Helps Beat GPS Spoofing. Maritime Users Are Alarmed
SpaceX will restrict a little-known, but accurate, location feature that boat owners use to counter GPS jamming and spoofing around the Red Sea. They're urging the company to reconsider.
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Starlink is best known for supplying high-speed satellite internet, but it turns out SpaceX’s technology can also counter a persistent problem in the Middle East: GPS spoofing and jamming.“Those [Starlink] satellites are so much closer than the GPS satellites, and so their signal is maybe 100 to 1,000 times stronger,” says Bruce Toal, a Starlink subscriber from Texas who’s been sailing the world. “They can overcome all kinds of jamming.”The ongoing electronic warfare in the Middle East has crippled GPS reliability for boats navigating the Red Sea, forcing mariners to contend with dangerous signal interference from surrounding military activities.
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