Europe's Galileo sat-nav system has been down since Friday
THE EU OWN-BRAND OF GPS system, Galileo, has been suffering an outage since Friday.
At the time of writing, 22 of the 26 satellites are marked with the words "service outage", and 24 have the words "not usable". The remaining two are listed as "testing", which also doesn't sound hugely helpful.
On day three of the outage, Galileo finally acknowledged the problem, calling it a "technical incident related to its ground infrastructure."
"The incident has led to a temporary interruption of the Galileo initial navigation and timing services, with the exception of the Galileo Search and Rescue (SAR) service," it continued. "The SAR service - used for locating and helping people in distress situations for example at sea or mountains - is unaffected and remains operational."
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