{"id":304015,"date":"2016-10-28T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=7ac8ebc7b194c5bfb4b9f4212d3528a6"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:29:00","slug":"swarm-reveals-why-satellites-lose-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=304015","title":{"rendered":"Swarm reveals why satellites lose track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/10\/gps_interruptions\/16207123-1-eng-GB\/GPS_interruptions_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSatellite engineers have been puzzling over why GPS navigation systems on low-orbiting satellites like ESA\u2019s Swarm sometimes black out when they fly over the equator between Africa and South America. Thanks to Swarm, it appears \u2018thunderstorms\u2019 in the ionosphere are to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/10\/gps_interruptions\/16207123-1-eng-GB\/GPS_interruptions_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSatellite engineers have been puzzling over why GPS navigation systems on low-orbiting satellites like ESA&rsquo;s Swarm sometimes black out when they fly over the equator between Africa and South America. Thanks to Swarm, it appears &lsquo;thunderstorms&rsquo; in the ionosphere are to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-kosmos","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}