The administrative capital of Jiangsu Province and the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, home to nearly 10 million people, briefly lost its digital compass on Wednesday when the city experienced an unprecedented six-hour satellite navigation outage that temporarily stalled traffic at the city’s airport.
It is official that local authorities are pointing out that the sudden disruption is a result of a systemic anomaly, and that it has disabled positioning services based on both the US’s Global Positioning System and China’s domestic BeiDou network, as well as applications that depend on the parallel BeiDou-linked BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
During the period of the blackout, essential urban services such as navigation and ride-hailing platforms were seriously disrupted, logistics coordination was compromised, food delivery operations were hampered, commercial drone activity was disrupted, along with many other systems reliant on real-time geospatial accuracy in real-time.
Almost six hours ago, Nanjing’s streets and airspace were without dependable satellite guidance for close to six hours, revealing the deep connection between navigation infrastructure and everyday transportation as well as the commercial ecosystem, as well as the vulnerability of densely networked cities when the core positioning frameworks fail to function properly.
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