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Re:Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or l... by diggan on Saturday July 13, 2019 @09:45AM (#20428009)
Since the website itself is not working, here is gsc-europa's own dashboard:

https://www.gsc-europa.eu/system-status/Constellation-Inform...

This is the specific incident: https://www.gsc-europa.eu/notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-n...

Seems to have started 2019-07-11 14:45 (UTC) so a couple of days ago.

Apparently, they used to have failures with the clocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...) so might be something similar.

Re:Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or l... by wybiral on Saturday July 13, 2019 @11:38AM (#20428554)
> Apparently, they used to have failures with the clocks

That would explain if a few of them were weird, but the report said "SATELLITE AFFECTED: ALL" which would be quite a coincidence if each clock on each satellite failed at the same time.

Re:Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or l... by wybiral on Saturday July 13, 2019 @01:45PM (#20429211)
The recent update on the report seems to point to an Italian facility that relates to timing though:

> Guenter Hein, Professor Emeritus of Excellence at the University FAF Munich told us, “As far as I know, it is a problem of the PTF [Precise Timing Facility] in Italy – time has an impact on the whole constellation!”