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US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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300 points drewr | 3 comments | 28 Jun 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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burnt-resistor[dead post] ◴[29 Jun 25 00:34 UTC] No.44409363[source]▶
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mtmail ◴[29 Jun 25 00:45 UTC] No.44409417[source]▶
Russia, China, Europe have similar systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_navigation#Global_na... It'd be a huge disruption but it's not irreplaceable.
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1. tokai ◴[29 Jun 25 01:03 UTC] No.44409512[source]▶
With Galileo being interoperable with GPS and more accurate it might not even be that big of a deal.
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2. jimnotgym ◴[29 Jun 25 01:27 UTC] No.44409631[source]▶
Well done to the EU for forseeing this eventuality
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3. thfuran ◴[29 Jun 25 01:33 UTC] No.44409660[source]▶
The US used to significantly limit the accuracy of GPS signal available for civilian use, so that's not exactly hard to foresee.