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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by celticninja on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:07AM (#13426783)
my thoughts too, Stuxnet but for GPS satellites. Too much of a threat to the US GPS system? Maybe a target for Russia but unlikely because they have no competing system. The only thing that leads away from it being US orchestrated is that they found Stuxnet, so if they found this you could be pretty sure that US/EU relations would be very shaky. Of course perhaps then Russia make it look like a US attack to divide a wedge between allies.
Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by Gupie on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:10AM (#13426816)
>> Russia ... have no competing system

Russia has GLONASS, China has BeiDOU, India IRNSS, Japan QZ

Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by celticninja on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:10AM (#13427365)
apologies, I thought GLONASS was military use, I then checked and got stuck in wikipedia, meaning to come back and edit my comment, too late now though.
Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by caf on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:12PM (#13432088)
If you have a recent smartphone, you might be a GLONASS user and not even know it!
Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by flyinghamster on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:59PM (#13432885)
If it's an Android smartphone, recent versions of MobiWIA - Eclipsim's GPS Status & Toolbox app divide the satellite signal bar display into four sections (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, and Galileo). Since my phone only supports GPS and GLONASS, the latter two don't show any bars.
Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by vetinari on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:39AM (#13427065)
> Russia but unlikely because they have no competing system.

Russian GLONASS had full constellation in 1995, then during late 90s it had breakages, but was fully restored by 2011 again.

EU Galileo has full constellation planed for 2020.

Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by raattgift on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @02:57PM (#13429726)
GLONASS's information and analysis centre is awesome.

https://www.glonass-iac.ru/en/

Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by frandroid on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:55PM (#13430671)
I wonder what design on the Soviet WWW would have looked like.
Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by knz on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:33PM (#13428914)
How is it a threat to the US GPS infrastructure? Does it not add another potential layer of redundancy for positioning systems? Assuming that the EU/NATO is still our ally...