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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.

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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!”

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