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A satellite has been jamming GPS over Europe

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 05, 2026
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For years, GPS receivers scattered across Europe — from Svalbard to Spain — kept registering the same brief, total signal blackout at the exact same instant, in bursts of three to five seconds. A new Veritasium video walks through how GPS expert Todd Humphreys and his student Zach Clements tracked the source. The interference was…

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