GLONASS GNSS Constellation Suffered 11 Hours Outage

All satellites in the Russian GNSS constellation GLONASS broadcast corrupt data for 11 hours on April 1st, from 1am until noon Russian time (UTC+4). This rendered the system completely unusable for millions of receivers in Russia and all over the world.

The outage was due to false ephemeris upload to the satellites; then they had to wait 1…