Location signals beamed to Earth by GPS satellites were off by hundreds of feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May last year, and the disruption lasted for up to two days in some U.S. regions
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The erratic behavior of GPS-guided farming machinery caused by the Gannon solar storm cost American farmers in the U.S. midwest more than $500 million, according to ... a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University.
Related, saw this the other day, FWIW:
Fun fact, at Google I need fingers, plural, to count the times I am certain nondeterministic (often: cosmic ray) bit flips caused outages. I am sure there are many more, but we've proven it more than a few times.
— Elixir of Progress (@elucidating.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM