[Outages] GPS Receiver Issues?

[Gadi Evron]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Fergie wrote:
> 
> Russian scientists warned Wednesday that U.S. and other satellites could be
> damaged by a new wave of intense solar flares.

This is getting a bit off-topic, but we have a space weather center for a
reason. Such solar flares can even cause the power grid to black
out. Think EMP on satelites, as well. There is a monitoring satelite
half-way between earth and the Sun to give just such warnings.

	Gadi.