The photo voltaic storms which have been wowing individuals with the Northern Lights throughout the USA the final two nights have additionally been disrupting GPS satellites, crippling some Midwest farmers’ operations, studies 404 Media. The problems have pressured many to cease planting simply as a vital planting deadline for corn farmers approaches.
The storms reportedly knocked “some GPS programs” offline quickly, which messed with the accuracy of “Actual-Time Kinematic” (RTK) programs. Tractors from John Deere and different manufacturers use RTK for “centimeter-level positional accuracy” when finishing up farming work like crop-planting or fertilizing, 404 Media writes.
The “extraordinarily compromised” programs induced “drastic shifts within the subject and even some heading…
