This is exactly the sort of thing that leads to people getting reincarcerated after their electronic monitoring devices mistakenly report them leaving their homes.<p>Some reporting I did on the topic a few years back: <a href="https://chicagoreader.com/news/many-on-house-arrest-in-cook-county-bombarded-with-texts-from-sheriffs-contractor/" rel="nofollow">https://chicagoreader.com/news/many-on-house-arrest-in-cook-...</a>
Somehow, Selective Availability returned.
Wouldn't RTK help mitigate this, as the base stations would also be affected by the atmospheric disturbance?
*10 metres
were other satellite positioning systems affected as well? was it checked that it wasn't just a misconfig on US command side?
not just space weather, I am pretty sure the atmosphere is being disturbed by toxic human activity both by accident and on purpose<p>I've run outside every morning for decades and used Garmin with GPS since 2015, I've never had so much trouble<p>Garmins finally supports dual-band (L1+L5) and BeiDou on newest models but it's still not enough to compensate, I have to use a Stryd footpod to guarantee accurate distances/speed<p>btw BeiDou GPS blows away US GPS for number of sats and precision but despite Russia's GPS being legal in US, technically BeiDou is not<p>* <a href="https://warontherocks.com/a-signal-point-of-failure-integrating-beidou-into-u-s-positioning-navigation-and-timing-systems/" rel="nofollow">https://warontherocks.com/a-signal-point-of-failure-integrat...</a><p>* <a href="https://payloadspace.com/gps-faces-growing-competition-from-chinas-beidou/" rel="nofollow">https://payloadspace.com/gps-faces-growing-competition-from-...</a><p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou#GPS_vs._BeiDou_Capabilities" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou#GPS_vs._BeiDou_Capabili...</a>
> BeiDou GPS blows away US GPS for number of sats and precision<p>Both BeiDou and GPS are <i>supposed</i> to be limited to 10m precision for civilians.<p>But, going down a rabbit hole, I found that BeiDou is <i>way</i> more accurate than 10m--3.6m and 2.6m outside and inside the Asia-Pacific region, respectively [1]. And that's with the most simple algorithm. It goes down to ~2.5m using dual-frequencies to account for atmospheric error.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12012-y" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12012-y</a>
For resiliency reasons alone, it's been proposed to allow (stop software-disabling) BeiDou in the US, but the last time this was brought up, the administration ran out of time. It's a shame, because when there is precise coverage, it enables things like lane-level city navigation.<p><a href="https://warontherocks.com/a-signal-point-of-failure-integrating-beidou-into-u-s-positioning-navigation-and-timing-systems/" rel="nofollow">https://warontherocks.com/a-signal-point-of-failure-integrat...</a>
TL;DR:<p>1. Not today. November 2025. They don't make it clear.<p>2. It is unclear what is the source of the claim.<p>3. Navigation issues happened before, they state it right there. They were more disruptive as well.<p>Every presented link seem to have this awful Cloudflare js challenge.<p>Bad article overall.<p>The author has articles all over the topics. Everything is sensationalized.<p>P.S. A separate comment would be too much to respond to the false claim below - no, there's nothing about GPS in "the first 3 words of the article".