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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Tech Life looks at satellite navigation and the increase in cases of signal interference. How could this affect shipping and aviation safety, and what can be done about it ?
Also in this edition, what digital material of cultural significance should be stored for the future ? A volunteer project is improving Wikipedia's photographs. And we find out about efforts to harness the power of the moon on the Faroe Islands.
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Presenter: Zoe Kleinman Producer: Tom Quinn Editor: Monica Soriano
(Image: An image of a Galileo navigation satellite. Credit: BBC)
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0:43.6 | Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, the program about technology and its impact on our lives. I'm Zoe Kleinman, and this week we're looking at satellite navigation and the |
0:48.9 | worrying increase in cases of interference. How could this affect shipping and aviation safety |
0:54.4 | and what can be done about it? |
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0:59.5 | what should be saved for the future and how to do it. |
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1:08.2 | And the tiny islands in the North Atlantic |
1:10.6 | harnessing the power of the moon. We start today with a problem that's affecting technology which many of us use in our travels, |
1:36.8 | but it's also critical to the safety of ships and aircraft around the world. |
1:41.6 | I'm talking about satellite navigation. |
1:46.9 | Three United Nations agencies have joined together to warn with grave concern about an increase in interference in sat nav signals. |
1:53.7 | The interference comes in the form of jamming and spoofing that disrupts global navigation |
1:58.8 | satellite systems. These are constellations of Earth-orbiting satellites, |
2:03.9 | providing positioning, navigation and timing services worldwide. |
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