Plus: Research confirms Russia is jamming GPS from space
By Dan Robitzski
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One of space's hottest commodities is one of its most finite and least tangible resources: radiofrequency spectrum. Next year, the International Telecommunication Union’s 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-27) in Shanghai will be a critical "battleground" for the global space industry, where spectrum allocations and other critical rulings for space operations will be determined, according to a recent opinion article by Stephan Lang, a retired ambassador who's now a senior advisor at Crest Hill Advisors.
"If America wants to maintain its leadership, government and industry players must act now to make success at WRC-27 a strategic priority for advancing the United States’ broader space and technology strategy," he wrote.
In his article, Lang identified four key issues — direct-to-device spectrum, broader spectrum allocations, so-called unauthorized services and power levels for non-geostationary orbit satellites — and called on the United States government and commercial industry to unify around common messages to ensure American leadership at the conference.
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In late 2024, Dana Goward, then president of the non-profit Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, published a SpaceNews opinion article sounding an alarm bell that the United States was vulnerable to GPS jamming and spoofing from space. Nearly two years later, he reached out with a new article that revealed:
"Shortly after [the 2024 article] was published, I was surprised to be contacted by a researcher in the United Kingdom," Goward wrote in the new commentary. "He said that interference from space was more than a possibility — he had observed it."
Goward goes on to describe academic research that's since been published concluding that GPS consistent interference, which researchers linked to a small constellation of Russian early warning satellites in Molniya orbits, is likely deliberate.
"This revelation should also greatly increase awareness and concern on the part of U.S. government leadership," Goward wrote. "The vulnerability of GPS and other GNSS signals is regularly used as a tool in great power competition."
Read the full SpaceNews commentary here.
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