Doesn't sound good.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140513-709892.html
I have often wondered how far in a corner we were painting ourselves with the civilian dependence on systems controlled by others. Some business models would implode should they lose reliable RTK positioning...
That does not sound believable to me. I would want to see more details on that, particularly with respect to the U.S. having brick and mortar facilities in Russia.
Russia has hosted nine GPS-based ground stations since 1995 that transmit geodesic data back to global data centers, theoretically making it possible to improve positioning data.
But the stations do not provide real-time data and are only used to measure annual continental drift, a spokesman for the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which runs the stations, said Thursday.
In our latitude the use of GPS in surveying is challenging even without extra black-outs. For example, in lunch hours there´s almost a mandatory brake when number of satellites drop.
It looks like that article was redacted or truncated... all it says is that they're going to turn off 11 CORS stations, this has no affect whatsoever on the GPS system as a whole. The Deputy Minister (or whatever his title is) is even quoted assuring Russian GPS users that the quality of their data will not be affected.
GPS control segment http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/control/ , the rest is Mr Putler's ([Putin Hitler)propaganda (entire russian mass media)
Correct, no GPS monitoring stations in Russia.
But I bet that some stupid US politician will grab on to this and try to use it for political leverage.
> GPS control segment http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/control/ , the rest is Mr Putler's ([Putin Hitler)propaganda (entire russian mass media)
Yes they article in place has changed since I posted it.