CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats

vinnyglennon 19 points 11 comments July 05, 2026
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awesomeusername

Seems fairly useless to me, for a few dollars I can sample the L1 frequency with a dumb device which has no idea of speed or altitude, and do the calcs with FOSS which is in the wild. Basically a rule which inconveniences the honest and has zero impact on the bad dudes, whoever they are

ronsor

Have fun. https://github.com/gnss-sdr/gnss-sdr

angry_octet

It's important to note that this is in relation to real time position estimation. You can collect the signal measurements and process offline later for telemetry reconstruction.

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