What Is Disrupting GPS Over The Whole Of Europe?

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Something is disrupting GPS signals across Europe. Sponsored by Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates - https://ve42.co/Newsletter ▀▀▀ 0:00 What is jamming Europe’s GPS? 4:43 How does GPS work? 10:46 How easy is it to jam GPS? 12:18 The Hunt To Find The Jammer 17:12 Who are the possible culprits? 20:06 The Investigation Goes Public 23:00 Narrowing In On The Jammer 25:15 Cosmos 2546 28:25 A Secret Messaging Service? 29:19 What happens if we lose GPS? ▀▀▀ Special thanks to the experts and collaborators who made this video possible: Professor Todd Humphreys and Dr Zach Clements at the University of Texas at Austin, whose research this story is based on - thank you for sharing your data, your time, and the inside story of the hunt

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