European GPS Outages Traced to Russian Missile-Warning Satellite
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Europe-wide GPS outages occurred in sync for 3–5 seconds per burst; ground stations in Amsterdam and Trondheim timed the intrusion to within five meters and traced it to Cosmos 2546, a Russian missile-warning satellite, suggesting a deliberate, possibly periodic test rather than a ground-based transmitter.
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