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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by Sanzig on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:26AM (#20441108)
The satellites themselves are most likely running some sort of proprietary or semi-proprietary RTOS for their C&DH computer (eg: VxWorks, QNX, Integrity, RTEMS...).

However, it's more than likely that there's a bunch of Windows machines on the ground segment side of the operation, since a lot of satellite fleet management software is Windows based.

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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by CannisterFlux on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:20PM (#20443003)
Nah. The ground control segment software runs a version of the ESA's SCOS 2000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOS_2000 and is on Linux (and maybe Solaris).
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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by shareIdeas on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:13PM (#20442205)
Do you need a windows os to send a signal to the satalites?

No.

But for some reason the op implied windows was to blame without evidence.

I mentioned the implausibly of it.

Op is misleading people.

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