Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets

Kristian von Bengtson writes with a link to a short guest post at Wired with an explanation of how his amateur rocket organization Copenhagen Suborbitals managed to obtain GPS receivers without U.S. military limits for getting accurate GPS information at altitude. Mostly, the answer is in recent relaxations of the rules themselves, but it was apparently still challenging to obtain non-limited GPS hardware. "I expect they only got the OK to create this software modification for us," von Bengston writes, "since we are clearly a peaceful organization with not sinister objectives – and also in a very limited number of units. Basically removing the limits is a matter of getting into the hardware changing the code or get the manufacturers to do it. Needless to say, diplomacy and trust is the key to unlock this."

Predicting a future headline:

[walmass]

In other news, amateur rocket organization Copenhagen Suborbitals recently reported theft of unspecified electronic components from its offices

Re:Huh

[Thanshin]

Cruise missiles go a long way in expressing customer dissatisfaction, I guess.

"ICBM. We go the extra mile so you can reach out to your customers."