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_moofyesterday at 8:43 AM1 replyview on HN

> Before this, everybody in the industry thought GPS solved the aerial navigation problem.

Many people in industry believed this but no one with a brain ever did. The vulnerability of GPS has been cause for concern for a long time, and the decimation of the VOR network has always had a lot of people up in arms.


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christophilusyesterday at 12:38 PM

It seems like we have enough satellites in space that are giving off enough unique signals that we could put together a device that solves the GPS problem without needing GPS itself. I wonder what it would take.

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