Solar Eruptions Affect GPS

On Dec. 6, 2006, a solar flare created a solar radio burst of unprecedented intensity, causing large numbers of receivers to stop tracking GPS signals for varying intervals. Paul Kintner, Ph.D., a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University, said the impact of the...

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