Re: Multi-day GNSS Galileo outage -- Civilization survives

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

Worthwhile noting however that they’re not reliably pushing notifications to people on their notifications list.

Worthwhile checking fundamentals you do depend on with your own low level monitoring.

-George

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> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > So much for the disaster scenarioes about a global clamity, planes falling out the sky, the end of civil society 
> > because a global navigation satellite system fails.  The European Galileo GNSS was down for days, and life went on.
>
> It wasn't even in full production, and I am not aware of much equipment that solely relies on Galileo.
>
> A lot of devices today can use multiple GNSS and this is great, as this incident shows that one of them can go 
> offline. Relying on only one of them is risky.
>
> This outage and its lack of ramifications doesn't imply that if GPS went offline there woulnd't be consequences. 
> Galileo is just a few years old, and wasn't even in production. If GPS would go offline, you'd see a lot different 
> fallout. Lots of things rely on GPS solely.
>
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se