Value chain · CLM-0164
In plain terms
Two international radio-regulation reports and a radio-science white paper on beaming power from space never mention GPS-type satellite navigation in connection with heating the upper atmosphere, and none of them gives a figure in metres for how far off such navigation could be thrown.
The claim as recorded
The two ITU-R WPT reports (SM.2392-1, SM.2505-0) and the URSI SPS radio-science white paper, checked directly by full-text search, contain no quantified GNSS positioning-error figure, in metres, for an SPS-beam-heating scenario, and zero mentions of GNSS/GPS in an ionospheric-heating context.
Scope and limits
A negative result from a time- and tool-constrained search, not proof that no such quantification exists anywhere. The one on-point 2026 modelled result found (Guo et al. 2026, see CLM-0140) frames GNSS only as a DETECTION instrument for ionospheric perturbation via TEC monitoring, not as a source of a positioning-error estimate.
What it assumes
The documents checked are representative of the readily available literature on this question; the external web-search budget was exhausted before this task, limiting the scope of the sweep.
Where it comes from
Full-text search of SRC-102 (33 pages), SRC-103 (39 pages) and SRC-100 (194 pages), per VER-934: zero hits for "GNSS" and for "GPS" as a word in all three; "Global Positioning", "navigation satellite", "GLONASS" and "Galileo" return zero in the two ITU reports and two in the URSI paper, neither in an ionospheric-heating context (PDF p.47, an RFI question with no figure; PDF p.133, a bibliography entry).
Basis: none (metres of GNSS positioning error)
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Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-0164
CLM-0164, Energy Aperture, as of 2026.
Connected records
Other published records linked to this one. A list, not a judgement.
- Also from SRC-100
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- Also from SRC-102
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- Also from SRC-103
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