A new study has found that Artemis II mission launched by NASA in April 2026 caused significant signal disturbances in Earth’s ionosphere and created limited errors in GPS positioning.
According to study submitted by a team of researchers from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan have analyzed how mission effecting GPS Signals from high-precision ground-based GPS receivers used by U.S. scientific institutions to measure the tiny Microscopic motions of Earth’s tectonic plates that cause to earthquakes.
According to calculations found that ionospheric disturbances resulting from the sheer power launch mission of mission were more significant then other rocket launches, from study it has been observed that disturbances caused by mission launch is more then ten times of other test launches, this is two times as powerful as the SLS based on Rocket ignition thrust.
For the first time in fifty years of history Artemis II mission saw Resuming human lunar presence, a mission where NASA hope for a clear way of path for lunar landings and help the sustainability of human presence on the moon. According to earth science professor Charles Lin at at National Cheng Kung University during launch of mission, ground-based GPS stations observed changes in the conduction electron density in the ionosphere that resulted in positioning errors for several meters in Ionosphere. Such Miscalculation could easily divert self-driving cars off track which results in traffic collisions.