If a satellite trigger a alarm , the staff will take a look at why it happen, off course, - but if everything is as expected, and nobody know about that theory and measurement doesn't agree, its not sure any alarm will go.
Because the anomaly I expect not a escalating anomaly - this is only the case according to theory, not according to the "measured reality" after clock synchronize first one time is done.
So the measured time dilation will be understood as constant, - except off course influences caused by perturbation etc, .
Yes if someone should worry about the preccesion, the anomaly could easy be discovered, but why should anyone worry something is wrong ?
The point is; - when relativity have been tested 17 times when the first GPS 17 satellites was set in orbit, and everything seems to confirm the theory of relativity, it must be very very strange if satellite number 18 not also should confirm the theory too.
What I mean is, - after a lot of GPS satellites have confirmed relativity, I believe everyone is pretty relaxed, - not many really believe it is necessary to watch for failure in the theory itself.
So even if a very strange anomaly occurs with one or few GPS satellite, and even it seems to be a very unique anomaly, - not seen before, - what will then happen?
If anyone should suggest that such anomaly could be caused by a flaw in special theory of relativity, such a GPS staff member would most likely be considered as either nuts or stupid.
So many will think better don’t suggest such solution.
But even if this option finally could be a possible conclusion, - t I think the politic is to conclude “we don’t know”, - “don’t speak more about this before we know more” , because what happen if this instead was caused by a unknown technical error.
It can easy ruin multibillion business (as we already agree)
Who knows, - maybe unknown causes of anomalies is one of the reasons that ISS is chosen to be a test satellite for time dilation (and now also Galileo 5 & 6) ?’
At least we know, that this report ........
Benefits of a Centralized Anomaly Database and Methods for Securely Sharing Information Among Satellite Operators
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR500/RR560/RAND_RR560.pdf
reveals confusion and suggestions how better to solve anomaly problems
that clearly not always seems to be an easy task..