EU To Boost Satellite Defences Against GPS Jamming, Defence Commissioner Says (reuters.com)
(Monday September 01, 2025 @03:15PM (msmash)
from the growing-concern dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1847244/eu-to-boost-satellite-defences-against-gps-jamming-defence-commissioner-says
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/eu-boost-satellite-defences-against-gps-jamming-defence-commissioner-says-2025-09-01/
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to [1]strengthen resilience against GPS interferences and will improve capabilities to detect it, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday. His remarks followed an incident on Sunday in which the GPS system aboard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's aircraft was jammed en route to Bulgaria. Bulgarian authorities suspect the jamming was due to due to interference by Russia, an EU spokesperson said.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/eu-boost-satellite-defences-against-gps-jamming-defence-commissioner-says-2025-09-01/
> The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to [1]strengthen resilience against GPS interferences and will improve capabilities to detect it, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday. His remarks followed an incident on Sunday in which the GPS system aboard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's aircraft was jammed en route to Bulgaria. Bulgarian authorities suspect the jamming was due to due to interference by Russia, an EU spokesperson said.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/eu-boost-satellite-defences-against-gps-jamming-defence-commissioner-says-2025-09-01/
triangulation (Score:2)
by ZipNada ( 10152669 )
Seems like it would be pretty easy to figure out where the jamming is coming from.
Even more dangerous than usual (Score:2)
by hdyoung ( 5182939 )
For Russia. They’re masters at pushing the limit, but this seems genuinely dangerous for them. That sort of thing could cause a plane to crash, and crashing the plane of the EU president could easily be interpreted as an attack on a NATO member. Russia can’t fight NATO. They’ve proven that they can barely push 15 kilometers into a vastly weaker, smaller opponent, and they only managed that much by grinding a million Russian men into hamburger.
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by hwstar ( 35834 )
An animal backed into a corner is a dangerous situation, especially when plutonium, and lithium deuteride are involved.
Weighted average of multiple GNSS systems (Score:3)
As early as 2018, even earlier, Polish scientists (Poland is a member of NATO) were working on using multiple GNSSs to improve acuracy and being more resilient to interference/jaming/spoofing
[1]https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292... [mdpi.com]
That plane had (Military Grade)GPS + (Military Grade) Galileo and yet was Jammed? Either the Russians are very advanced in the Jamming Game, or the europeans are very lazy hardening their (Military Grade) GNSS Systems
[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/1/84
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Comments we have had in the framework the Donbas war say Russia is very advanced in electronic warfare. (It could be the Europeans were also concomitantly bad at hardening their GNSS.)
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Maybe, but how many regular commercial ships and planes have access to this military grade stuff?
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There's not just use of the multiple satellite navigation systems to get a location but increased use of inertial and celestial navigation.
Inertial navigation needs a reference point upon being booted up to be useful, it is incapable of telling you where you are without some indication on where you've been. I can recall mention of airports having coordinates painted on the side of buildings so that aircraft crew can enter an accurate start point into the inertial navigation than wait for GPS, VORTAC, or wh
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Even Better:
Quantum navigation
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/07/what-is-quantum-navigation-earth-observation/