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Researchers have become alarmed after satellites in space moved off by 33 feet, causing serious issues for GPS on Earth, which was enough to crash self-driving cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n In November 2025, scientists warned of a huge solar storm that was set to collide with Earth.<\/p>\n This would wreak havoc on communications satellites and radio signals, and it appears that it has done so.<\/p>\n A paper published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal shows that satellites have recently experienced severe disruption.<\/p>\n What scientists have found happened to the satellites<\/p>\n The story of the paper broke on the website Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the journal, a team of scientists found that global navigation satellite systems experienced \u201csignificant positioning errors\u201d during the storm.<\/p>\n This was estimated to be over 33 feet during the storm.<\/p>\n That was \u2018large enough to disrupt precision agriculture and autonomous transportation industries,\u2019 said the journal.<\/p>\n It prompted major worries for those on Earth.<\/p>\n A shift of that nature could cause a lot of issues, especially when it came to self-driving cars.<\/p>\n It also led to worries about what the impacts could be on human activity thanks to the disruption it could cause.<\/p>\n Issues of this nature with satellites could have caused self-driving cars to lose signal or even crash.<\/p>\n Understanding space phenomena is incredibly important<\/p>\n The report expanded on what the storm incident could lead to.<\/p>\n \u201cThe results underscore the importance of accurate understanding of various space weather phenomena to enhance our predictive capabilities through coordinated observations and physics\u2010based modeling,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n There were some \u2018significant positioning errors at mid-latitudes,\u2019 according to the researchers.<\/p>\n GPS equipment on tractors and other farm equipment could have been massively affected by the storm.<\/p>\n Thankfully, the farming season had concluded when it hit.<\/p>\n However, it\u2019s not the first time that a storm has caused possible problems for farmers.<\/p>\n A previous superstorm massively impacted farmers<\/p>\n In May 2024, another superstorm hit and impacted satellites orbiting the Earth.<\/p>\n This time, it did cause massive problems for farmers, costing up to half a billion dollars in damages.<\/p>\n The paper on the November storm says that, had it hit during the farming season<\/a>, its impact could have been huge.<\/p>\n![\"Satellites](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NASA-Satellite-1024x640.webp\")
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