For quite a few years now, the name Galileo has been associated not only with the very famous physicist, philosopher and astrologer Galileo, but also with the European navigation system consisting of many satellites orbiting the Earth. However, since last Thursday, it has been dealing with a major outage that disabled all satellites. Thus, devices using this navigation system may experience some problems with positioning.
The new iPhones also use Galileo:
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The first reports of Galileo's problems began to appear on Thursday afternoon, with the European GSA later confirming them. Although there is not much information about the problems at the moment, according to the InsideGNSS portal, the dog should be "buried" right on Earth. It can be caused, for example, by a wrong setting of the device that communicates with the satellites. Every mistake he makes can put the satellites out of service. However, fortunately, "just" a repair from Earth should be enough to put it into operation, but it has not arrived on the fifth day, so it is quite likely that the problem is more complicated than the experts first assumed.
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The Galileo navigation system is used by a large number of smartphones, including iPhones, from the model iPhone 6. So if you've been experiencing any issues with your smartphone's location being inaccurate over the past few days, you can be happy to know that the problem is elsewhere. This is how the outage may manifest itself, according to available information. However, once the system is back up and running, everything should be back to normal. However, given the constant functionality of GPS and GLONASS, the problems should be relatively minor.
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Galileo's parameters are more than impressive. The entire satellite system consists of a total of twenty-four satellites that orbit the Earth and communicate with each other to provide precise localization to devices on the ground. ProThe project was created primarily due to the European Union's efforts to "independently" from the USA and Russia, whose solutions - GPS and GLONASS - are used for location determination.
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