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Last year, Australian farmers lost automatic steering for their agricultural machinery for a significant time when a single geo-sync satellite, which broadcast
by satori99 3y ago
Last year, Australian farmers lost automatic steering for their agricultural machinery for a significant time when a single geo-sync satellite, which broadcast a GPS correction signal over the continent, failed.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/23/australias-farmers-call-for-backup-plan-after-gps-tractor-steering-system-fails https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/23/austr...
- dr_orpheus 3y agoPrevious HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643705
- lxgr 3y agoWow, I remember hearing about the I-4 F1 outage affecting shipping and aviation, but I didn't realize it was also transmitting a widely used SBAS! That seems like a massive single point of failure, given how easy it should be to make that available over at least one other satellite in the region.