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>SpaceX wasn’t involved in the research and can’t do much to try to block such techniques, though it’s unclear whether it would try. well, government can alway
by trhway 5y ago
>SpaceX wasn’t involved in the research and can’t do much to try to block such techniques, though it’s unclear whether it would try.
well, government can always mandate to add artificial randomly floating frequency shift to break that Doppler based calculation to supposedly block the Taliban's ICBMs from precise navigation.
- DeathArrow 5y agoTrue, but not only US based companies are launching sattelites.
- kortilla 5y agoSpacex is the only one with enough volume right now for this technique to have good accuracy.
- a_zaydak 5y agoSpaceX will (and does) have good coverage but the accuracy will not be to anywhere what people have come to expect from GPS. At least not without major design changes to focus on this as a product from SpaceX.
- bell-cot 5y agoI understand that Russia's "GPS" system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS ) has been fully operational for a while now. The Taliban (or North Koreans, or others non-friends of the U.S.) don't need to count on U.S.-run geolocation services for their Important Stuff.