Re: Multi-day GNSS Galileo outage -- Civilization survives

2019-07-19 Thread Mel Beckman
I suspect the Vatican was involved :)

 -mel 

> On Jul 19, 2019, at 12:20 AM, George Herbert  wrote:
> 
> Worthwhile noting however that they’re not reliably pushing notifications to 
> people on their notifications list.
> 
> Worthwhile checking fundamentals you do depend on with your own low level 
> monitoring.
> 
> -George
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson  wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
>>> 
>>> So much for the disaster scenarioes about a global clamity, planes falling 
>>> out the sky, the end of civil society because a global navigation satellite 
>>> system fails.  The European Galileo GNSS was down for days, and life went 
>>> on.
>> 
>> It wasn't even in full production, and I am not aware of much equipment that 
>> solely relies on Galileo.
>> 
>> A lot of devices today can use multiple GNSS and this is great, as this 
>> incident shows that one of them can go offline. Relying on only one of them 
>> is risky.
>> 
>> This outage and its lack of ramifications doesn't imply that if GPS went 
>> offline there woulnd't be consequences. Galileo is just a few years old, and 
>> wasn't even in production. If GPS would go offline, you'd see a lot 
>> different fallout. Lots of things rely on GPS solely.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se


Re: Multi-day GNSS Galileo outage -- Civilization survives

2019-07-19 Thread George Herbert
Worthwhile noting however that they’re not reliably pushing notifications to 
people on their notifications list.

Worthwhile checking fundamentals you do depend on with your own low level 
monitoring.

-George

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson  wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> 
>> So much for the disaster scenarioes about a global clamity, planes falling 
>> out the sky, the end of civil society because a global navigation satellite 
>> system fails.  The European Galileo GNSS was down for days, and life went on.
> 
> It wasn't even in full production, and I am not aware of much equipment that 
> solely relies on Galileo.
> 
> A lot of devices today can use multiple GNSS and this is great, as this 
> incident shows that one of them can go offline. Relying on only one of them 
> is risky.
> 
> This outage and its lack of ramifications doesn't imply that if GPS went 
> offline there woulnd't be consequences. Galileo is just a few years old, and 
> wasn't even in production. If GPS would go offline, you'd see a lot different 
> fallout. Lots of things rely on GPS solely.
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se


Re: Multi-day GNSS Galileo outage -- Civilization survives

2019-07-18 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:

So much for the disaster scenarioes about a global clamity, planes falling 
out the sky, the end of civil society because a global navigation satellite 
system fails.  The European Galileo GNSS was down for days, and life went on.


It wasn't even in full production, and I am not aware of much equipment 
that solely relies on Galileo.


A lot of devices today can use multiple GNSS and this is great, as this 
incident shows that one of them can go offline. Relying on only one of 
them is risky.


This outage and its lack of ramifications doesn't imply that if GPS went 
offline there woulnd't be consequences. Galileo is just a few years old, 
and wasn't even in production. If GPS would go offline, you'd see a lot 
different fallout. Lots of things rely on GPS solely.


--
Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se


Multi-day GNSS Galileo outage -- Civilization survives

2019-07-18 Thread Sean Donelan
So much for the disaster scenarioes about a global clamity, planes 
falling out the sky, the end of civil society because a global navigation 
satellite system fails.  The European Galileo GNSS was down for days, and 
life went on.


I guess disasters exercise planners now need a new technical failure for 
table top exercises.



• NAGU number 2019025 on 2019-07-11 14:45 on the potential service 
degradation;

• NAGU number 2019026 on 2019-07-13 20:15 on the service outage;
• NAGU number 2019027 on 2019-07-18 08:20 on the service recovery;

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