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On January 1st, a number of people reported problems with their GPS Receivers around the time of 18:00 to 23:00 GMT. At first it seemed a little strange, and not all were receiving problems. Mostly European countries, UK and Germany saw huge differences in altitude readings being in the thousands when realistically people were at sea level or at 90 meters above sea level. Others also reported problems with location where there position was suddenly reported 10km away.

After careful examination of the GPS Satellites and after many complaints, the GPS Support Center for Military and Civilians at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado found a problem with Satellite SVN23/PRN23 which went off air due to a problem on the satellite. This has been reported at http://www.schriever.af.mil/GpsSupportCenter

So if you experienced problems on January 1st, now you know why!

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Posted on Monday, January 05 @ 00:08:34 UTC by Dave Burrows

 
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