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| Mark Psiaki, left, professor of mechanical andaerospace engineering, hooks up an experimental GPS/Galileo digitalstorage receiver and patch antenna with the assistance of graduatestudents Todd Humphreys, center, and Shan Mohiuddin in Rhodes Hall. Copyright © Cornell University |
July 7, 2006
Cornell sleuths crack secret codes of Europe's Galileo satellite
Members of Cornell's Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory havecracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe'sfirst global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the codessecret. That means free access for consumers who use navigation devices-- including handheld receivers and systems installed in vehicles --that need PRNs to listen to satellites.
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