The world will close the world

About 12,500 miles Above our heads, the satellites that form Global GPS system (GPS) Keep the world quietly works. A blackout It would lead to almost immediate chaos.

“You will see traffic jams, a lot of traffic accidents, because transport will witness the first immediate impact,” says Dana Gait, a flexible navigation and time institution, a charity institution that works to strengthen GPS.

Thousands of aircraft will face in the air, which use GPS among other navigation and delicate downs, a wave of uncertainty. Then other critical parts of society – from Financial transactions To the energy production systems-which have become dependent on the accuracy, navigation and timing mode (PNT) provided by the US-owned constellation of 31 GPS satellites that may start stuttering. Riping will be felt all over the world.

“If a catastrophic moment occurred in the blink of an eye and we have completely lost GPS, you will see this global seizure of everything that moves, and every piece of data moves, every person moves. All of this will be closed,” says Eric Dihler, Vice President of Defense, Serira space systems. GPS timing signals will be one of the most influential losses. Cell phone connections are likely to collapse. The billions will It is quickly eliminated One of the stock markets amid turmoil.

GPS interruption may be particularly destructive for the United States, which depends on the sovereign space system in particular and contains Her feet In building backup copies that can provide the required flexibility to keep the country running. The United States, the National Space Consulting Council, has left behind Be careful last year. On the other hand, China has strengthened the most modern satellite navigation system-with a sprawling network of optical fiber cables and ground radio signals.

The conditions needed to cause the entire GPS network have been fully expelled will be unusual and may come with broader societal repercussions. Such interruption, for example, can be caused China or Russia Launching anti -tourism weapons against GPS (USA also He has Anti -Soville), strong Magnetic stormor Attractive in capabilities Electronic War.

Despite the possibility of power outages, GPS is not infallible. It has its demons. “What really happens is, at the regional level, the GPS (GPS) spoils, interferes and interferes with it regularly.” Thousands of aircraft and ships have GPS to intervene with Every week, signals are disabled regularly around the war areas.

“America is not well prepared at all,” says Guard. More to create PNT systems should be done that can serve as the background of space -based GPS, he says. “There is no general awareness. Certainly we do not have a flexible PNT or Pnt structure of any type other than GPS.”