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Germany blocks full Chinese takeover of satellite startup on national security grounds (techxplore.com)

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The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.

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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

You can't disable GPS for individual devices, what they can do is disable the civilian signals and only send out the military ones which are both scrambled and way more accurate. GPS is one-way communication, from satellites to ground devices, no backlink.

And I bet they absolutely would, but Ukraine is also using civilian devices and asked the US not to.

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