First successful 'spoofing' of unmanned aerial vehicles
Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 11:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside source -- a discovery that could factor heavily into the implementation of a new federal mandate to allow thousands of civilian drones into the US airspace by 2015.