Galileo navigation system unusable

[PA0PBZ]

More info:

https://destevez.net/2019/07/galileo-constellation-outage/

An interesting read, thanks! That also explains the 'A' flag for E14 on my phone.
Here's some more about the flags in GPSTest: https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest/blob/master/FAQ.md

[ogden]

Galileo Initial Services have now been restored. The technical incident originated by an equipment malfunction in the Galileo ground infrastructure, affecting the calculation of time and orbit predictions, and which are used to compute the navigation message. The malfunction affected different elements on the ground facilities.

https://www.gsc-europa.eu/news/galileo-initial-services-have-now-been-restored

[Zucca]

They told me they had the same buggy SW in Germany and Italy so both went down.

It's fascinating it took so long in 2019 to find the SW bug.

[testpoint1]

the system use the PHM clock, I ever test it, other system, Russia (CS clock) and China (RB clock), also meet the stability problem. now only GPS is stable for clock synchronization.

[madires]

https://www.politico.eu/article/galileo-blackout-followed-effort-to-guard-against-cyber-threats/:
When Fucino started having problems Oberpfaffenhofen was installing security updates and couldn't take over.

Edit: fixed ":" in URL

[guenthert]

The article might have been moved, the current URL is
https://www.politico.eu/article/galileo-blackout-followed-effort-to-guard-against-cyber-threats/

It's a bit light on details.  Even if there was an upgrade in progress, why did it take a week to recover?  Was the guy with the root password on vacation in the Andes?
 
“I'm not saying it’s a nice situation,” he said. “But it’s also important that for most citizens it was not perceived that Galileo was not there.”  10e10 Euro well spent 

[iMo]

The Czech Space Defense Forces (HQ is in Prague) have to take over the control over the system then, as it is with the other systems